Livonia Mounds

Livonia Mound rises about 31 feet on a base of roughly 165 feet, the tallest of ten mounds left in Pointe Coupee Parish. It stands between Highways 77 and 78, about 150 feet from Bayou Grosse Tete, and is a roadside sight. It dates to the Coles Creek culture, about 700 to 1200 CE by one count and 400 to 1100 by another. A second, low mound was destroyed by the mid-1900s, and a third is reported farther south at the water's edge. Chitimacha, Houma, Tunica-Biloxi, Atakapa-Ishak and Koasati people have all lived in this country.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 18 mi
  The 48-day siege of 1863 on the Mississippi bluffs, where the Louisiana Native Guards and Captain Andre Cailloux led the first assault; earthworks, a six-mile trail and a museum.
• Atchafalaya Welcome Center — 18 mi
  A state welcome center inside the Atchafalaya Basin, the nation's largest river swamp, with exhibits on Basin history and life, a film, a crawfishing boat and French-speaking staff.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 19 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.
• Audubon State Historic Site — 22 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.

More markers nearby

• False River — 6.3 mi
• Battle of Bayou Fordoche — 11 mi
• Julien Poydras — 11 mi
• Major General Delesseps S. "Chep" Morrisson — 11 mi