The site, which is located on the shipping lanes of the Mississippi River and has been utilized since the 1700s as a port, recently received Port District zoning making way for redevelopment as an intermodal transportation hub and industrial park.
With its easy access for barge loading and offloading, and the site’s proximity to early lead mines in adjacent Washington County, under early French ownership the port was utilized to ship lead cannonballs and shot to Europe to support Napolean’s army. Today, the port ships frac sand, grain and other bulk commodities.
