Mound Plantation

This flat-topped, rectangular mound is on private land, and the way to see it is from the U.S. 65 right-of-way without entering. It belongs to the Coles Creek centuries, roughly 700 to 1200 CE, when people in the Tensas basin raised mounds around plazas for feasts, rites and meetings. Most lived in small family hamlets, hunting, fishing and gathering. At Balmoral, in the same basin, three mounds survive and a highway now runs through the plaza. No nation can be named for the builders; the Taensa and Natchez appear in the record centuries later.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Bruin State Park — 5.6 mi
  A state park on a Mississippi River oxbow near St. Joseph, named for a territorial judge who owned a plantation beside it, on a former fish hatchery site.
• Frogmore Cotton Plantation and Gins — 32 mi
  A working cotton farm near Ferriday that tells the plantation story through the people enslaved there, with quarters, an ancient mound and a rare steam-engine gin.

More markers nearby

• St. Joseph — 3.6 mi
• Linwood Plantation — 9.3 mi
• Winter Quarters Plantation — 9.3 mi
• Henry Watkins Allen — 12 mi