Mounds Plantation

These mounds are known mostly through their pottery. Clarence Webb and Ralph McKinney published the site report in 1975 in Louisiana Archaeology. Jeffery Girard returned in 2012 with test pits at Mound 2 and Mound 6, soil probes and a test unit, and Mound 2 gave 691 sherds, most of them plain. The decorated pieces include Coles Creek Incised, Belcher Ridged and Hollyknowe Pinched types, the kinds archaeologists use to place a site in time and tradition. The marker stands beside the highway; this entry gives no route to the mounds.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 11 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum — 11 mi
  The state's first public petroleum museum in Oil City, on the 1905 Caddo Parish strike and the 1911 over-water well on Caddo Lake, with a derrick and a log-jam exhibit.
• Spring Street Museum — 11 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 11 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.

More markers nearby

• Louisiana Maneuvers Led by General Patton — 5.9 mi
• Belcher Mound — 6.2 mi
• The Historic Caddo Lake Drawbridge — 8.3 mi
• First Over Water Oil Well — 9.8 mi