Indian Mounds

How old are they? The signs say about 6,000 years, another says 5,000, and a 2022 paper in the American Journal of Science by Brooks Ellwood and others argues construction began more than 11,000 years ago, possibly 11,300. Ellwood's 2009 cores found a charcoal layer. For years the mounds were tailgate ground; since 2010 they have been fenced during home football games. LSU manages the site, which is on the National Register, and visitors are asked to stay off. No source here names the builders' nation.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State Capitol — 2.2 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.
• Capitol Park Museum — 2.7 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.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 2.9 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 4.0 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.

More markers nearby

• School for the Deaf — 1.8 mi
• Beauregard Town — 2.0 mi
• John Archer Lejeune — 2.0 mi
• The Founding of "Red Stick" — 2.2 mi