Johnson Cemetery Mounds - Mississippi Mound Trail - Tunica, MS
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Markerman62
N 34° 44.460 W 090° 22.000
15S E 741080 N 3847479
Located on Old US 61 south of Hollywood Road, Tunica
Waymark Code: WM13GR3
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 12/11/2020
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The Johnson Cemetery site currently consists of a single mound and associated village, but may originally have had a second mound. The existing mound is 12 feet high in height and was most likely pyramidal in shape, though its dimensions have suffered from erosion. Archaeologists have determined that the mound was built in stages by Native Americans during the Mississippi Period, ca. AD 1200-1600. Johnson Cemetery, a 20th-century African American cemetery, is located on the mound's summit.
Date Installed:: 2016
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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