Ancient Mound

The Handbook of Texas dates mounds around Nacogdoches to about A.D. 1250, when people built lodges along Lanana and Bonita creeks. The town takes its name from the Nacogdoche, a Caddo group of the Hasinai who lived near here in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Disease and warfare had cut their numbers sharply by 1800. The Handbook says Nacogdoche descendants are probably among the Hasinai survivors living today in Caddo County, Oklahoma. A separate Middle Caddo mound complex in Nacogdoches, at Washington Square, is dated to 1200-1400 CE.

What the plaque says

Ancient Mound Mound Street got its name in the 18th century from mounds which lined it from Main to King Street. These were built by prehistoric Indians. Only this one remains. Pottery from a demolished mound that measured 150 by 75 feet is preserved in Old Stone Fort, Stephen F. Austin State College. (1966)

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Washington Square — steps away
• Nacogdoches University — steps away
• Site of the Home of Charles S. Taylor — 0.2 mi
• First United Methodist Church of Nacogdoches — 0.3 mi