Windsor Mounds in Lorman, Mississippi
Long before the decadent columns of the nearby Windsor Mansion were raised, this area tucked in the Mississippi hills was reshaped by Indigenous hands. Between 1100 and 1600 A.D., Native mound builde…
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- Long before the decadent columns of the nearby Windsor Mansion were raised, this area tucked in the Mississippi hills was reshaped by Indigenous hands
- Between 1100 and 1600 A.D., Native mound builde…
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- Evidence of a structure were located on mound B through a 2013 excavation
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Long before the decadent columns of the nearby Windsor Mansion were raised, this area tucked in the Mississippi hills was reshaped by Indigenous hands. Between 1100 and 1600 A.D., Native mound builde…
Native builders raised these mounds centuries ago, before local families turned one into a cemetery
Centuries later, one of these mounds took on a new life as the final resting place for the owners of the plantation. Found tucked away north of the Windsor Ruins, the cemetery sits on Mound C, where the graves of the Daniell and Freeland families can be found. It is rumored that…
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- Long before the decadent columns of the nearby Windsor Mansion were raised, this area tucked in the Mississippi hills was reshaped by Indigenous hands
- Between 1100 and 1600 A.D., Native mound builde…
- Native builders raised these mounds centuries ago, before local families turned one into a cemetery
- Between 1100 and 1600 A.D., Native mound builders raised four rectangular earthen platforms overlooking the river valley
- Their purpose is now uncertain—perhaps ceremonial, perhaps residential—but the mounds endure as the oldest monuments on this land
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- Evidence of a structure were located on mound B through a 2013 excavation
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