West Carroll County Louisiana Archives News.....Mysterious Mounds of West Carroll March 30, 1050
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West Carroll Gazette March 30, 1050
Mysterious Mounds 
by Mrs. D.H. Rust

  Who Built those mounds?
  West Carroll Parish in Northeast Louisiana is dotted with great mounds.  The 
largest on at Old Floyd, formerly the   parish site, is 65 feet high.
  An archaeologist from the Smithsonian Institue, Washington D.C., has examied 
the mounds several times and says they were not by American Indians but by an 
extinct race of mound builders 1,500 years 1,500 years before Christ.
  He thinkds 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 
elvations, 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.
  Digging into the  mounds reveals bones, flints, pottery and many different 
soils, proof  positive that the dirt was carried from various areas bucket by 
bucket.
  Probing of them has still yielded no solution about who toiled perhaps years 
to build them--those people who lived here so long ago. 

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