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Big Oak Little Oak Islands

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NRHP Reference #
  
71000357

Added to NRHP
  
14 July 1971

Area
  
57 ha

Nearest city
  
New Orleans

Big Oak-Little Oak Islands is located along an old shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain in or near the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge within the city limits of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is a pre-Columbian site of the Tchefuncte culture, with earth and shell middens, dating from about 2470–2150 B.P. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1971.

References

Big Oak-Little Oak Islands Wikipedia