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Poverty Point State Historic Site/Poverty Point National Monument (French: Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture, located in present-day northeastern Louisiana. Evidence of the Poverty Point culture extends throughout much of the Southeastern Woodlands of the Southern United States.
Poverty Point Reservoir State Park is a state park in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana located along a 2,700 acres (4.2 sq mi) man-made reservoir offering camping and watersport activities, swimming, hiking, and fishing. [1]
Aerial view of the Poverty Point earthworks, built by the prehistoric Poverty Point culture, located in present-day Louisiana.. The Poverty Point culture is the archaeological culture of a prehistoric indigenous peoples who inhabited a portion of North America's lower Mississippi Valley and surrounding Gulf coast from about 1730 – 1350 BC.
Marsden Mounds is an archaeological site with components from the Poverty Point culture (1500 BCE) and the Troyville-Coles Creek period (400 to 1200 CE). It is located in Richland Parish, Louisiana, near Delhi. [2] It was added to the NRHP on August 4, 2004, as NRIS number 04000803. [3]
Poverty Point and the Late Archaic mounds of the Poverty Point culture, located five miles northeast of the village, were declared a National Historic Landmark on June 13, 1962. It later became a State Historic Site and opened to the public in 1976. In 1988, Congress designated the site as a U.S. National Monument. [6]
The Poverty Point culture (3rd millennium BCE−1st millennium BCE) — a Mound builders culture in the lower Mississippi River Valley, during the Archaic period in North America. Archeological sites are located in the present day the U.S. states of Louisiana and Mississippi .
The newest study also mirrors Louisiana's last-place ranking for the second consecutive year in the U.S. News and World Report's 2024 Best States report, which cited an atmosphere of violent crime ...
The Washita River, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, and Washita County, Oklahoma, were also named for the tribe, [6] as well as the town of Washita, Oklahoma. According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture , the name comes from the French transliteration of the Caddo word washita , meaning "good hunting grounds". [ 7 ]