Peck Village

In 1933 James A. Ford dug at Peck, and the pottery he took from it became a measuring stick. By tracking how decoration changed from layer to layer, a method called seriation, he built the first culture sequence for Louisiana prehistory, a chart that other sites could be checked against. Archaeologists still point to the work as an early use of vertical stratification. People lived at the village from about 100 BC to AD 1200. It sits beside the Peck Mounds on Macon Ridge, above a lake, and the public road stops at the sign.

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 Mounds — steps away
• Gene King — 11 mi
• Fort Beauregard — 11 mi
• Richard Berry, Jr. — 13 mi