The United States Branch Mint, at New Orleans

ID: 3208 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Collections of the Louisiana State Museum, gift of Miss Lynne Farwell ~ Date: 1858

This file appears in: From Fort St. Charles to the U.S. Mint

This wood engraving is from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, a popular periodical of the mid-19th century.

This file appears in: From Fort St. Charles to the U.S. Mint

From Fort St. Charles to the U.S. Mint

By Mary Ann Wegmann, Louisiana State Museum & University of New Orleans History Department

The United States Mint was once the site of Fort St. Charles, one of the defenses built in 1792 during the Spanish period. Fort St. Charles was the largest of five fortifications surrounding the city.…