Routh Phase
Routh Mounds is a Plaquemine culture archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It is the type site for the ''Routh Phase(1200 to 1350 CE)'' of the Tensas Basin Plaquemine Mississippian chronology. It is located approximately northwest of the Winter Quarters State Historic Site. See also *List of archaeological periods (North America)#Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley, Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley * Balmoral Mounds * Flowery Mound * Ghost Site Mounds * Sundown Mounds References External links

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Newellton, Louisiana
Newellton is a town in northern Tensas Parish in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population is 1,187 in the 2010 census, a decline of 255 persons, or 17 percent, from the 2000 tabulation of 1,482. The average age of the population there is 41 years. Newellton is west of the Mississippi River on Lake St. Joseph, an ox-bow lake. Further south toward St. Joseph, the parish seat of government, is another ox-bow lake, Lake Bruin, a part of which is the popular Lake Bruin State Park. History Newellton itself was founded in the early 19th century by the Routh family, for whom the defunct Routhwood Elementary School was named. John David Stokes Newell Sr., a planter and lawyer in St. Joseph, the seat of Tensas Parish, named the settlement for his father, Edward, a native of North Carolina who relocated to Tensas Parish in 1834."John ... and Edward Newell", Louisiana Historical Association, ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 2 (1988), p. 600 N ...
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