Troyville Earthworks

Jonesville was once called Troyville, and the old name now labels a whole culture of the Lower Mississippi Valley. The complex stood where the Black River meets the Little River: at least nine mounds inside a D-shaped embankment about 50 feet wide at its base, with the high riverbanks closing the other sides. Archaeologists place it in the Baytown period, roughly AD 400 to 700. Today nothing is plain to an untrained eye, much lies under buildings and a cemetery, and local residents are building a replica from the original mound's dirt.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Frogmore Cotton Plantation and Gins — 8.8 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.
• Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge — 12 mi
  A 25,000-acre bottomland refuge beside Catahoula Lake, a Ramsar wetland that is a major early-season stop for ducks on the Mississippi Flyway.
• Vidalia Landing Riverfront — 24 mi
  A riverwalk on the Mississippi at Vidalia, built on the site of the old town that moved west in 1938 when the river was cut off.

More markers nearby

• Troyville Earthworks — steps away
• Fort Beauregard — 10.0 mi
• Crooks Mound — 14 mi
• Dewey W. Wills Wildlife Management Area — 15 mi