Egg Pocking / Pâquer Les Œufs

Pocking is a contact sport with rules. Across Louisiana, contest eggs are boiled tip down so the air pocket sits at the butt end, hens are fed calcium-rich food, and champions must break and eat their winning egg to prove it was real. Cheaters once turned to guinea hen eggs, which are smaller and harder, so guinea egg knocking became its own category. Marksville claims to have made egg tapping an official event in 1956. This Cottonport marker, number 173 in the Pomeroy Foundation series, went up in 2024.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 8.7 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 9.9 mi
  The Marksville courthouse where Solomon Northup was freed in January 1853, with a marker and a 2026 bronze that shows him rising from the mud.
• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 25 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 27 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.

More markers nearby

• Battle of Mansura — 4.9 mi
• Mansura — 5.3 mi
• Desfossé House — 5.4 mi
• Moreauville — 5.9 mi