near Pioneer, Louisiana.
![]()
Clovis and other spear point types typical of the Paleoindian period are found at Poverty Point and at other sites on Macon Ridge. They are scattered, as if the people were highly mobile, only stopping briefly as they moved . . .
(Anthropology • Man-Made Features • Native Americans • Paleontology) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Clovis and other spear point types typical of the Paleoindian period are found at Poverty Point and at other sites on Macon Ridge. They are scattered, as if the people were highly mobile, only stopping briefly as they moved . . . (Anthropology • Man-Made Features • Native Americans • Paleontology) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
The Poverty Point earthwork complex is a monumental achievement worthy of celebration. It was built and occupied from about 1700 BC to 1100 BC. This site is often considered to be the "New York City" of its day because it . . . 
In commemoration of the sacrifice and service of our revolutionary ancestors and pioneers who braved the wilderness and made a settlement in Clarkson in 1803. This memorial, a section of a column from an early courthouse of . . . 
Southfield Township purchased this site in 1872 and a frame building was erected shortly thereafter which was used for township meetings and community functions. After remodeling in 1934, it was used as the township business . . . 
The Southfield Town Hall was built between 1872 and 1873 to house the government of Southfield Centre, also known at the Burgh. The hall was the site of elections, public meetings and social events. Township officials . . . 
The Great American Canal The Erie Canal was the most important of America’s inland waterways. It facilitated the opening of the American frontier and provided a route west for tens of thousands of settlers and immigrants. . . . 
The Sunbeam Dam was constructed by the Sunbeam Consolidated Gold Mines Company to provide power for their mill located 13 miles up Yankee Fork on Jordan Creek. Construction of the dam and power plant began in June, 1909, and . . . 
Near here, the initial pond of the Yankee Fork Gold Dredge was constructed to allow the assembly of the massive four-story floating machine. It was a major operation to transport the equipment and pieces needed to build the . . . 
River rafters and kayakers now find whitewater excitement on this stretch of the Salmon River. Early photographs help us discover that these rapids were once replaced by a lake. Whitewater was missing after the completion of . . . 
Prospectors panned for gold in the Yankee Fork-Salmon River area from the late 1860's to 1879. Then in 1880 the Yankee Fork Consolidated Gravel Mining Company built a ditch to bring water here for their new hydraulic gold . . . 
Changing Alignments Lock 32, completed in 1916, is one of the third and last generation of locks to be built in Pittsford and in New York State. It replaced the Enlarged Erie Lock 62, built during the 1850s Enlargement which . . . 
The Great American Canal The Erie Canal was the most important of America’s inland waterways. It facilitated the opening of the American frontier and provided a route west for tens of thousands of settlers and immigrants. . . . 
Lead-silver mineral discoveries 12 miles north of here on Bayhorse Creek in 1864 and 1872 led Joel E. Clayton to locate a large smelter here in 1880. Doubled in size in 1888, Clayton's smelter has enough variety of ores from . . . 
Thaddeus Griswold sold several parcels of his farm to settlers who used the land for burial grounds. In 1847 these "proprietors" donated the land to the board of health which established a township cemetery. The most heroic . . . 
Private Isaac Plumb • Private John Lyon Private David Ford • Private Seth Ranney Private James Battel Captain & Quartermaster David Judson Clerk & Quartermaster Nathan Ford
Dedicated to the memory of World War Veterans
In Memory of All Veterans
Historic Sites First Baptist Church built 1809 moved to VLG. 1835 Parsonage, bur- ial ground of David & Anna Wilcox great, great grandparents of Win- ston Churchill, School Dist #6 
Earthen mounds had been built before, during the Middle Archaic period. Single ridges had, too. But, the six nested ridges at Poverty Point are unique in both their formation and their scale. The diameter of the outermost . . . 
Poverty Point is situated on Macon Ridge, an elevated landform on the western edge of the Mississippi River floodplain. Being located on Macon Ridge means that the site was safe from seasonal floods. It remained high and dry . . . 
