Poverty Point World Heritage Site

Worth a stop

We watched a video series about old civilizations in North America and one of those presented was Poverty Point. The name Poverty Point was named after the farm that used to be there. They would call ...

Little known but fascinating

This is the North American equivalent of Stonehenge. However, there were no rocks in the area so it is all dirt. We had a tour with the Park Ranger who is an archeologist. The artifacts date to 5000 ...

Poverty Point Heritage Site is a must see!

This was very informative about our Louisiana history. We enjoyed being outside and observing beautiful landscapes. There were plenty of places to picnic and the visitor center had a small but very ...

A seldom-visited World Heritage Site!!

We drove and drove and drove miles of backroads to reach Epps and Poverty Point. The place is intriguing in that some of the earthen works date back 3,000 years and the purpose of some of the constru...

neat to learn about and see!

We learned about Poverty Point recently and decided when we were close by we would stop through. The staff was very nice and we learned a lot going through the museum and watching the videos in the th...