Transylvania Mounds

Six mounds still rise from private land in East Carroll Parish, the tallest nearly 34 feet, remnants of a Mississippian settlement that stood here between 1200 and 1541. Twelve mounds originally defined the site. This is the type site for the Transylvania Phase — the reference point archaeologists use to identify late Mississippian cultural development across the Tensas Basin. The mounds are viewable from the highway, which is the only access most people get. They're on private property, so there's no walking the grounds, no interpretive plaques, no parking area with a bronze marker. Just earthworks that have lasted five centuries, visible from the road if you know to look.