Jaketown Site

People lived at Jaketown for some 3,250 years, from about 1750 BCE to 1500 CE. In the Poverty Point era, roughly 2000 to 600 BCE, it was a regional trade center where raw materials arrived and finished goods were made. Between about 1100 and 1500 CE, Mississippian people raised the platform mounds that survive, Mound B about twenty-three feet tall, and the place became the center of a chiefdom. Older, smaller mounds were lost to plowing and road fill early in the twentieth century. The surviving mounds have never been excavated. The site is a National Historic Landmark.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 17 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.

More markers nearby

• Pinetop Perkins — 3.1 mi
• Turner's Drug Store — 4.1 mi
• Denise LaSalle — 4.2 mi
• Hank Cochran — 5.8 mi