Poverty Point
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How it came to be
Poverty Point is a complex of earthworks on the eastern edge of Macon Ridge in the Lower Mississippi Valley, in northeast Louisiana. Most of it was built 3,700 to 3,100 years ago by hunter-fisher-gatherers, not farmers.
Six concentric C-shaped ridges with an outer diameter of 1.14 km enclose a large plaza. The largest mound, Mound A, stands 22 metres high on a base of about 215 by 200 metres, one of the largest earthen mounds in North America, and appears to have been raised in less than three months. The first earthwork was Mound B, built sometime after 1700 BC.
The site takes its name from a 19th-century plantation. It has been a Louisiana state historic site since 1972, was authorized as a national monument on 31 October 1988, and was inscribed in 2014.
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