Mont Helena - Mississippi Mound Trail - Rolling Fork, MS
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Markerman62
N 32° 56.589 W 090° 52.092
15S E 699290 N 3647001
Located on Old US 61 between Rolling Fork and Anguilla
Waymark Code: WM13FXT
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 12/04/2020
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Mont Helena may have had as many as three mounds in the past. The remaining mound is 26 feet high, but its original dimensions were even more impressive. Roughly 10 feet of mound fill was removed around 1900 prior to the construction of the Colonial Revival home now located on its summit, and flood deposits have likely buried several more feet at its base. Native Americans built the mound by alternating layers of clay and sand during the Mississippi Period (ca. AD 1200-1600).
Date Installed:: 2016
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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