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An overview of the Poverty Point site showing the locations of the nearby Motley and Lower Jackson mounds. Note North is to the right. Approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south of the Poverty Point site center is the Lower Jackson Mound (16WC10) a conical structure 10 ft (3 m) in height and 115 ft (35 m) in diameter at its base.
A view of the lake near the state park. 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.
Poverty Point World Heritage Site is an ancient earthwork made of mounds and ridges located in West Carroll Parish.
The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1] There are 4 properties listed on the National Register in the parish. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024. [2]
Poverty Point, built about 1500 BCE in what is now Louisiana, is a prominent example of Late Archaic mound-builder construction (around 2500 BCE – 1000 BCE). It is a striking complex of more than 1 square mile (2.6 km 2), where six earthwork crescent ridges were built in concentric arrangement, interrupted by radial aisles.
Fairhaven's localities include Fairhaven Center, North Fairhaven, East Fairhaven, Oxford, Poverty Point, Nasketucket, Sconticut Neck, and Winsegansett Heights. Most of the town's population lies either in the west side of town, along Sconticut Neck or in the village of East Fairhaven, with the northeast quarter of the town's land sparsely ...
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]