National Historic Landmark

Grand Village of the Natchez Indians

Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi
Listed
October 14, 1966
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
66000408

About this property

Grand Village of the Natchez (22 AD 501), also known as the Fatherland Site, is a 128.1-acre (0.518 km2) site encompassing a prehistoric indigenous village and earthwork mounds in present-day south Natchez, Mississippi. The village complex was constructed starting about 1200 CE by members of the prehistoric Plaquemine culture. They built the three platform mounds in stages. Another phase of significant construction work by these prehistoric people has been dated to the mid-15th century. It was named for the historic Natchez people, who used the site in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the early 18th century, when the historic Natchez people occupied the site, they added to the mounds. The village was the Natchez tribe's main political and religious ceremonial center in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, according to historical and archaeological evidence. It replaced the Emerald Mound site in this role. After suffering a military defeat by French settlers in 1730, the Natchez abandoned the site and moved away. In the early 19th century, the land was privately owned and cultivated as part of the Fatherland Plantation. Archaeological excavations started in 1930, and three mounds were found. (They had been partially buried by loess soils, with some erosion due to St. Catherine's Creek.) The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a Mississippi Landmark in 1985. The site is listed on the Mississippi Mound Trail.

Location

Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi
31.52503, -91.38080

Categories

HISTORIC - ABORIGINAL
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Sources

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When was Grand Village of the Natchez Indians listed on the National Register?

Grand Village of the Natchez Indians was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 14, 1966.

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Grand Village of the Natchez Indians is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

Is Grand Village of the Natchez Indians a National Historic Landmark?

Yes. Grand Village of the Natchez Indians has been designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL), the highest level of federal recognition for historic properties in the United States.

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