Galloway Place Mound

Galloway Place, also called the Hodgkins Place mound, is a small lone cone on the eastern edge of Macon Ridge, about 10 feet tall and 80 feet across, and unusually well preserved. Its age is unsettled. Soil and artifact studies suggest people lived here as early as about 1700 BC, the age of Poverty Point, while the state's mound guide proposes 400 BC to AD 20, in the Tchefuncte to Marksville periods. Nearby finds include pottery, beads, projectile points and fragments of baked clay cooking balls like those from Poverty Point. It is private land, with No Trespassing posted.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Cotton Museum — 13 mi
  A state museum on US 65 north of Lake Providence with a sharecropper's cabin, a commissary and a gin house, in the parish where John H. Scott worked for Black voting rights.
• Grant's Canal, Lake Providence — 14 mi
  About 1,000 feet of the ditch Union troops dug in early 1863 to get Grant's army around Vicksburg, with a boardwalk, a pier and a visitor center in the Byerley House.
• Lakeport Plantation — 20 mi
  Arkansas's grandest surviving Greek Revival plantation house, built about 1858 by a planter who held 155 enslaved people in 1860, now an Arkansas State University museum.
• Poverty Point World Heritage Site — 26 mi
  Louisiana's only World Heritage Site: six C-shaped ridges, a 43-acre plaza and Mound A, raised on Macon Ridge between about 1700 and 1100 BCE.

More markers nearby

• Oak Grove Community House — 11 mi
• Tony Joe White — 11 mi
• Lake Providence Confederate Monument — 14 mi
• Soldiers' Rest — 14 mi