Julice Mound

Louisiana Highway 581 was routed over part of this platform mound, and only about a third of it is thought to remain. It still rises roughly 9 feet on a base of about 130 by 65 feet. Pottery places the Plaquemine-culture occupation between about 1200 and 1541 CE, and the mound probably belongs to the Transylvania complex less than a mile away. A small historic cemetery sits east of it. The land is private, and the mound is to be seen from the highway right-of-way, not walked onto. A survey in 1954 recorded it at about 8 feet.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Grant's Canal, Lake Providence — 8.5 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.
• Louisiana State Cotton Museum — 9.0 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.
• Poverty Point World Heritage Site — 11 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

• Transylvania Mounds — 0.9 mi
• Parish of Carroll — 8.4 mi
• Grant's Canal — 8.5 mi
• Battle for the Mississippi: The Vicksburg Campaign — 8.5 mi