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The LSU Campus Mounds were created by the First Peoples of North America. Experts believe these hunter-gatherers considered the mounds sacred and gathered there for ceremonial activities and secular events. Originally built where the Mississippi River made a turn to the south, the mounds would have been a prominent landmark to travelers on the river at that time. When LSU moved from downtown Baton Rouge to its current location in the 1920s, the mounds were one of the reasons the site was chosen. Former Gov. Huey P. Long identified the mounds as a campus feature that should always be preserved.
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