Mazique Archeological Site

[1] The site is located on the west bank of Second Creek, a tributary of the Homochitto River and consisted of three platform mounds and a central plaza.

[2] The site is named for a local African-American family from southern Adams County who once owned the land.

Chambers, who performed a site survey and surface collection of ceramic fragments of Plaquemine culture pottery.

These villages were in the southwestern part of Natchez territory near the Mississippi River and closer to the location of French contact.

[4] This factional infighting was a holdover of pre-European local politics, when various groups vied for supremacy over the polity.

After the war, the French built Fort Rosalie near the Grand Village, considered the beginning of Natchez, Mississippi.

In 1729, the new French commander, Sieur de Chépart, ordered the emptying of White Apple so that he could use its land for a new tobacco plantation.

The chiefs of White Apple sent emissaries to potential allies, including the Yazoo, Koroa, Illinois, Chickasaw, and Choctaw.