Mound C

Mound C is the only mound inside Poverty Point's plaza, a low earthwork near the eastern edge of Macon Ridge about 260 feet long and 6.5 feet tall. Erosion toward Bayou Macon has narrowed it to roughly 80 feet. It was built of thin layers of soil with midden between them, and several old ground surfaces carry artifacts. A dip across the middle probably comes from a nineteenth-century wagon road. One radiocarbon date from beneath it suggests it is among the earliest constructions at the site, though its exact timing is uncertain.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Poverty Point World Heritage Site — steps away
  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 — 17 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 — 18 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 — 22 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

• After Poverty Point — steps away
• Poverty Point Artifacts — steps away
• Southwest Ridges — 0.2 mi
• Mound A — 0.3 mi