Pottery Hill

The hill is named for the pottery in its soil, and the older story is how much pottery this coast once made. The Tchefuncte, living on Cane Bayou about 2,500 years ago, were the first people in Louisiana to make it in quantity: coiled sandy clay, carved patterns, no glaze, and cooking pots set on small feet. Archaeologists took about 50,000 fragments from their village near the bayou. The hill itself is credited to later peoples, and sources differ on which culture left its sherds.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fontainebleau State Park — 1.9 mi
  Lakeshore park on the Northshore where Tchefuncte potters, Acolapissa and Choctaw lived, and where 153 people were enslaved at Marigny's sugar and brick plantation by 1840; the mill ruin still stands.

More markers nearby

• Battle of Lake Pontchartrain — 0.5 mi
• Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall — 0.7 mi
• Native Peoples — 1.2 mi
• The Enslaved — 1.3 mi