Address Restricted, Holly Bluff, Mississippi. County/parish: Yazoo.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000412.
1 contributing site. 20 contributing structures.Also known as:
The Holly Bluff site (22 YZ 557), sometimes known as the Lake George Site, and locally as "The Mound Place," is an archaeological site that is a type site for the Lake George phase of the prehistoric Plaquemine culture period of the area. The site is on the southern margin of the Mississippian cultural advance down the Mississippi River and on the northern edge of that of the Cole's Creek and Plaquemine cultures of the South." The site was first excavated by Clarence Bloomfield Moore in 1908 and tested by Philip Phillips, Paul Gebhard and Nick Zeigler in 1949.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. The mounds are listed on the Mississippi Mound Trail.
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