Belcher Mound

Archaeologists use this place as a measuring stick. The Belcher Phase, a name for late Caddo settlements along the Red River, comes from it, and radiocarbon, thermoluminescence and pottery sequences support the dating. These were Kadohadacho lands, the Caddo confederacy whose name means real or proper Caddo. A federal repatriation notice names the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma as the nation linked to Belcher Phase sites through pottery, architecture and burial practice. Treat the visit as the roadside marker; the sources found do not say who owns the land, and this entry gives no route to the mound.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum — 8.3 mi
  The state's first public petroleum museum in Oil City, on the 1905 Caddo Parish strike and the 1911 over-water well on Caddo Lake, with a derrick and a log-jam exhibit.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 17 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Spring Street Museum — 17 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 17 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.

More markers nearby

• Louisiana Maneuvers Led by General Patton — 0.3 mi
• Mounds Plantation — 6.2 mi
• Trees City Office & Bank — 8.0 mi
• Oil City — 8.1 mi