Marksville Mounds

The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana owns this ground. The tribe and the City of Marksville signed an agreement on September 23, 2022, returning the 42-acre site, which the tribe says holds sacred burial grounds with the remains of its citizens. Counts differ: the marker says seven mounds inside two earthen ridges, the tribe six inside a semicircular earthwork about 3,300 feet long. The marker itself stands on a city street at the site's edge, so follow the tribe's rules on entry and call ahead.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 1.0 mi
  The Marksville courthouse where Solomon Northup was freed in January 1853, with a marker and a 2026 bronze that shows him rising from the mud.
• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 1.2 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 22 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 27 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.

More markers nearby

• Holy Ghost Catholic Church — 0.8 mi
• Holy Ghost Catholic School — 0.8 mi
• Founding Of Marksville — 1.0 mi
• Solomon Northup, "Twelve Years a Slave" — 1.0 mi