Historical Marker
Insley Mounds
Delhi, Richland County · Louisiana
Insley once held as many as 13 mounds along the edge of Macon Ridge, and two large ones still show from the road. Radiocarbon dates put both in the Coles Creek period, about AD 700 to 1200, though people lived on the ridge as early as the Poverty Point period. The northern mound is conical, about 20 feet tall even after some 5 feet of fill was taken from its top, and was built in one stage. The nearer is a platform mound of about 11 feet, also built in one stage. The land is private.
Where it stands
32.38755, -91.47802 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 7.6 miNearly 80,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and oxbow lakes, with the state's largest population of Louisiana black bears and Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 hunt nearby.
- Poverty Point World Heritage Site — 18 miLouisiana'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.
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