Indian Shell Mound Park

Part of the Alabama Indigenous Mound Trail, Indian Shell Mound Park is a prehistoric monument built by native Americans. The park is located on the northern shore of Dauphin Island. The 11 acres of subtropical natural habitat represent a botanical treasure found on no other Gulf barrier island. The shell middens here date to the Mississippian period (1100 to 1550). The shell middens were visited for centuries by indigenous people who roasted oysters and fished in the Little Dauphin Island Sound, making it an important site to numerous Southeastern indigenous tribes who assert an ancestral connection with those who built and occupied Alabama’s ancient mounds. The park is also a hot spot for observing neotropical migrant birds each spring and fall and is a stop on the Alabama Coastal Birding Trail.