Historical Marker
Wade Landing Mound
Columbia, Caldwell County · Louisiana
This mound stands on private land, with a no-trespassing warning, and visitors are asked to look at it from the road right-of-way. It is a rectangular platform about nine feet tall, with a base of roughly 130 by 165 feet, raised by Native people of the Coles Creek culture sometime between about 700 and 1200 CE. Core samples show it went up in two stages. A historic-period cemetery on the summit has kept looters off it. Coles Creek centers often grouped flat-topped mounds around a plaza used for ceremonies and games.
Where it stands
32.07562, -92.01985 · Directions
More markers nearby
- Bobby Bridger — 3.8 mi
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