Peck Mounds

Peck Mounds share a ridge, and a listing, with a plantation house. The site lies inside the Ferry Place National Register district, added in 1980, so one entry covers both a Native earthwork and a planter's property. Dates given for the mounds run from about AD 650 to 1100, the late Troyville and early Coles Creek cultures. Five mounds stood originally and four rise above ground today: a flat-topped platform mound about 18 feet tall and three low rounded ones near 4 feet. Ford mentioned them in 1933 while excavating the nearby village.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Frogmore Cotton Plantation and Gins — 15 mi
  A working cotton farm near Ferriday that tells the plantation story through the people enslaved there, with quarters, an ancient mound and a rare steam-engine gin.
• Vidalia Landing Riverfront — 23 mi
  A riverwalk on the Mississippi at Vidalia, built on the site of the old town that moved west in 1938 when the river was cut off.
• Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge — 27 mi
  A 25,000-acre bottomland refuge beside Catahoula Lake, a Ramsar wetland that is a major early-season stop for ducks on the Mississippi Flyway.
• Lake Bruin State Park — 28 mi
  A state park on a Mississippi River oxbow near St. Joseph, named for a territorial judge who owned a plantation beside it, on a former fish hatchery site.

More markers nearby

• Peck Village — steps away
• Gene King — 11 mi
• Fort Beauregard — 11 mi
• Richard Berry, Jr. — 12 mi