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The Tchefuncte site is located in the marsh a half-mile north of Lake Pontchartrain in eastern Louisiana. [3] The Tchefuncte site originally contained two oval-shaped shell middens, designated Midden A and Midden B. Midden A is about 52 meters long, 15 m wide, and 1.5 m thick.
Madisonville's colorful waterfront, viewed here looking north from the drawbridge on LA 22, features outdoor dining along the Tchefuncte River estuary. The Tchefuncte has been designated by the government of Louisiana as a "Natural and Scenic River". Fairview-Riverside State Park is located along the river, upstream of Madisonville.
The town of Madisonville is located on the banks of the Tchefuncte River, near where the river enters Lake Pontchartrain. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 2.51 square miles (6.51 km 2 ), of which 2.49 square miles (6.46 km 2 ) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.06 km 2 ), or 0.86%, is water. [ 6 ]
The Tchefuncte River Range Lights are a range that was first established in 1838 to aid vessels entering the Tchefuncte River from the north side of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. The lighting apparatus was supplied by Winslow Lewis and consisted of nine lamps with several fourteen-inch reflectors.
Tchefuncte may refer to: Tchefuncte site; Tchefuncte River; Tchefuncte River Range Lights This page was last edited on 19 July 2022, at 20:06 (UTC). Text is ...
A map showing the geographical extent of the Marksville cultural period. The Marksville culture was an archaeological culture in the lower Lower Mississippi valley, Yazoo valley, and Tensas valley areas of present-day Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, [1] and extended eastward along the Gulf Coast to the Mobile Bay area, [2] from 100 BCE to 400 CE.
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The name "Mixteco" is a Nahuatl exonym, from mixtecatl, from mixtli [miʃ.t͡ɬi] ("cloud") + -catl ("inhabitant of place of"). [7] Speakers of Mixtec use an expression (which varies by dialect) to refer to their own language, and this expression generally means "sound" or "word of the rain": dzaha dzavui in Classical Mixtec; or "word of the people of the rain", dzaha Ñudzahui (Dzaha ...