Bayou Sorrel Indian Mound

Clarence B. Moore, the archaeologist credited with a 1913 investigation here, dug mounds from a steamboat. He worked the rivers of the South on the Gopher, opening burial mounds and sending the finds to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. The collection later reached the Smithsonian. In October 2021 the Southeastern Archaeological Conference renamed its C. B. Moore Award, citing his handling of Native ancestors' remains. The mound lies beyond the levee at the end of Bayou Sorrel Road, and its ownership is unrecorded, so look from the levee road.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State Capitol — 22 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Chitimacha Museum — 22 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 22 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
• Capitol Park Museum — 22 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.

More markers nearby

• Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Jack Miller Landing) — 4.1 mi
• Bayou Plaquemine (Bayou Road) — 9.1 mi
• Bayou Goula — 10 mi
• Bayou Plaquemine — 11 mi