Indians Along Amite River

Four conical mound sites stand along the lower Amite River in Livingston Parish. The King George Island Mounds, reported in 1957 with two mounds, may hold as many as five, and excavation points to the Late Archaic, thousands of years ago. Diggers recovered dart points, four-sided drills, hammerstones and microlithic drills, along with stone from far away. With no house remains, archaeologists suspect ceremonial or territorial purposes, though the function is unclear. Their shape first suggested the later Marksville period. No name the builders used for themselves survives. This is archaeology, not a place to visit.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LSU Rural Life Museum — 14 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.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 16 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.
• Capitol Park Museum — 16 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.
• Old State Capitol — 16 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.

More markers nearby

• Watson — 0.6 mi
• Historic Denham Springs — 6.0 mi
• Denham Springs — 6.4 mi
• Walker, Louisiana — 8.2 mi