Grand Village of the Natchez in south Natchez, Mississippi, preserves a prehistoric Indigenous village and three platform mounds begun around 1200 CE by Plaquemine people and enlarged over centuries. By the late 17th and early 18th centuries, it had become the Natchez people’s principal political and religious center, where major ceremonies took place. Sun Mound held the residence of the Great Sun, and Temple Mound supported the Sun Temple and a charnel house for elite remains. After conflict with nearby French settlements in 1729, French retaliation forced the Natchez from the area in 1730, and the village was abandoned.

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Natchez, Mississippi · USA