Filhiol Mound

A platform mound of the Coles Creek culture, Filhiol Mound was built around 700 CE and abandoned around 1200 CE, according to charcoal from beneath it. It stands about 7 feet high, with a base roughly 100 feet on a side, on a natural levee of the Ouachita River. In the 1850s a cemetery was started on its summit, and that burial ground is credited with helping to preserve the mound. It sits on private land beside U.S. 165, about 11.7 miles south of Interstate 20, and is for looking at from the road.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 10 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 12 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 12 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 13 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.

More markers nearby

• Honoring the Area's African-American Musicians & Legendary Music Venues — 7.5 mi
• Mt. Nebo Elementary School — 9.1 mi
• First Southern Pine Fourdrinier Kraft Linerboard in United States — 11 mi
• Fort Miro — 11 mi