Pottery Hill - Mandeville, LA
N 30° 21.095 W 090° 03.113
15R E 783393 N 3361430
Area of Native American settlements, also listed on National Register of Historic Places.
Waymark Code: WM14R50
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 08/13/2021
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Located on the western fringe of the Fontainebleau State Park in Mandeville.
Marker text is
This site (16ST48), dominated by the ancient Castain Oak (2006, Live Oak Society), has provided evidence of human activity though a sequence of aboriginal ceramics dating from the late Tchefuncte (800 BC) and early Marksville (AD 1-400) periods. Shards, bone fragments and shell deposits suggest continuous use by aboriginal people including the Acolapissa, later Choctaw, into the 20th century. Colonial settlers used the excellent clay found here to set up commercial potteries. The last pottery operated until the 1940's.
Marker Name: Pottery Hill
Marker Type: Roadside
What does marker relate to?: Other
Parish: St Tammany
Link to more information:: Not listed
Year Erected or Date Dedicated: Not listed
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