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About this site
Caddoan Mounds is a state historic site in Texas, Texas. It is one of 24 state historic sites documented in Texas in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 24 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.5965, -95.1531. The nearest cataloged historic site is Starr Family Home (state historic site), about 80 miles away. Others within a short drive include Starr Family Home, Confederate Reunion Grounds, and Sam Bell Maxey House.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #P014. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Caddo Mounds State Historic Site (also known as the George C. Davis Site) is an archaeological site near Alto in East Texas, comprising a Caddoan Mississippian culture village and ceremonial center with two earthwork platform mounds and one burial mound. Founded by the Hasinai around 800 CE with most major construction between about 1100 and 1300 CE, it was the southwesternmost ceremonial mound center of North America's great mound-building cultures and was ritually abandoned around 1250-1260 CE. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1970 (with a boundary increase in 1979), and operational control was transferred to the Texas Historical Commission in 2008. An EF3 tornado struck the site during Caddo Culture Day on April 13, 2019, killing one person and heavily damaging the visitor center.
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