West Carroll County Louisiana Archives News.....Mysterious  Mounds March 30, 1950
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West Carroll Gazette March 30, 1950
Mysterious Mounds of West Caroll, La.
By Mrs. D.H.Rust

  Who built those mounds?
  West Carroll Parish in Northeast Louisiana is dotted with great mounds.  The 
largest one at Old Floyd, formerly the parish site is 65 feet high. 
  An archaeolist from the Smithsonian Institue, Washington, D.C., has examined 
the mounds several times and says they were built not by American Indians but 
by an extinct race of mound builders 1,500 years before Christ.
  He thinks they were built for religious purposes.  They were built on the 
banks of where the Mississippi River used to run (along what is now Bayou 
Macon) and he says the Indians used them for camping grounds and to keep out 
of the high water.
  Great oaks and other kinds of timber grow on these  mysterious, grassy 
elevations, but no pines-West Carroll Parish does not grow pines.
  Some of the mounds have been leveled off to build homes on, but most of them 
stand just as they were built centuries ago.
  Probing of them has still yielded no solution about who toiled perhaps years 
to build them--tose people  who lived here so long ago. 


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