Lower Jackson Mound

For years Lower Jackson was counted among the mounds of Poverty Point, because it stands about two miles south of that site, due south of its largest mound. Some archaeologists think Poverty Point's designers worked it into their plan. Charcoal from beneath it showed it far older: dates between 3955 and 3655 BC, in the Middle Archaic, some two thousand years before Poverty Point. The conical mound is about 8 feet high and nearly 130 feet across, and digging in the 1970s and 1980s left roughly 70 percent of it. It is private land, seen from the road.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Poverty Point World Heritage Site — 1.2 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.
• Louisiana State Cotton Museum — 18 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.
• Grant's Canal, Lake Providence — 19 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.
• Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 21 mi
  Nearly 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.

More markers nearby

• Mound E — 0.9 mi
• Southwest Ridges — 1.1 mi
• Mound A — 1.1 mi
• After Poverty Point — 1.2 mi