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States of the Gulf Coast of the United States

  • AlabamaThe name Alabama comes from a Muskogean-speaking tribe whose members lived near the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers.
  • MississippiAround 9500 BC, the first human groups arrived in what is now Mississippi. These Paleo-Indians hunted megafauna that would soon vanish from the landscape.
  • TexasThe Caddo people controlled much of northeastern Texas along the Red, Sabine, and Neches River basins when European explorers first arrived.
  • LouisianaThe Watson Brake site near present-day Monroe stands as the oldest mound complex in North America. Archaeologists date this eleven-mound structure to…
  • FloridaThe first recorded human presence in Florida dates back at least 14,000 years to the Paleo-Indians who entered the peninsula.