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Poverty Point National Monument
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- Designation
- National Monument
- State
- LA
- Park address
- Pioneer, LA
- Entrance fee
- No entrance feeNPS data as of 2026-08-25
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Notes
Designation Date: 10/31/1988
Now a nearly forgotten culture, Poverty Point at its peak 3,000 years ago was part of an enormous trading network that stretched for hundreds of miles across the continent. It was - and is - also an engineering marvel, the product of five million hours of labor. Explore the culture of a highly sophisticated people who left behind one of North America’s most important archeological sites.