William Bartram Trail

Historical marker location:

10364 Pointe Coupee Road, New Roads, Louisiana

( Marker is on Pointe Coupee Road (State Highway 420) ½ mile north of Airport Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Traced 1773-1777.

Louisiana was briefly an independent republic. After declaring independence from Spain in 1810, a group of Louisianans established the Republic of West Florida, which included parts of what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. However, the republic was short-lived, as it was quickly annexed by the United States.