Q. Is there a National Park Service operated visitor center at Poverty Point?
A. There are no federal facilities at Poverty Point National Monument, the site is operated by the State of Louisiana?
Did You Know?
The first translation of a Native American language into a European language – Timucuan to Spanish - occurred on lands within the Timucuan Preserve in the late 1500s. Fray Francisco Pareja did this translation at the Catholic mission of San Juan del Puerto on present day Ft. George Island.
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