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Pocahontas Mound A
Photograph by Keith Baca, Courtesy of the Mississippi Department
of Archives and History |
This rectangular platform mound, 175 feet across at the base
and about 22 feet high, was built and used during the Mississippian
period, between 1000 and 1300 A.D. Remains of a mud-plastered
log-post building have been found atop the mound. This structure
was used as a ceremonial temple or as a residence of a chief.
An extensive former village area surrounds the mound. The site
has been incorporated into a roadside park.
On U.S. Highway 49 at the town of Pocahontas, about nine
miles north of the Jackson, Mississippi, interchange of U.S. 49
and I-220. Open to the public daily dawn to dusk, free
of charge.
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