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Marks the site of the Edwards Plantation, one of the estates where Solomon Northrup was forced into servitude.
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Representative Creole settler house from the 1820s.
This museum covers the history of the indigenous people of the area, predominant prior to Marc Eliche's establishment of a trading post in 1794 and the inevitable colonization of Europeans and European Americans to follow. In the vicinity of Marksville are burial/ceremonial mounds of native people origin, but, due to funding cuts, they are seldomly open.
Arguably the biggest attraction in town, with a casino, buffet and restaurants, attractive pool for hotel guests, and live entertainment from fairly major headliners. It also has a nice swamp diorama complete with gators and Spanish moss-draped cypress trees in its atrium.