Haynes Bluff Mound

The Haynes Bluff mounds belong to the end of a long tradition. The Tunica, whom the French found on the lower Yazoo in 1699 living beside other remnant groups, had come as refugees from the Quizquiz-Tanico region after disease broke up older chiefdoms. They lived at the Haynes Bluff site and may have added to its mounds as late as the eighteenth century, which would make them, with the neighboring Natchez, among the last Native mound builders. The marker stands near an International Paper site, so check access first.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 11 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 13 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.
• Old Court House Museum — 13 mi
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.
• Delta National Forest — 17 mi
  The only bottomland hardwood forest in the national forest system, some 60,000 acres of oak, ash and cypress in Sharkey County, run with the state as Sunflower Wildlife Management Area.

More markers nearby

• French Fort St. Pierre — 2.3 mi
• Chickasaw Bayou Battle — 9.1 mi
• Waltersville — 11 mi
• Fort Nogales — 12 mi