Jaketown is the site of some of the earliest Indian earthworks in Mississippi. Of eighteen mounds recorded, only Mounds A, B, and C are still visible. The earliest stages of Mound A were built in the Late Archaic/Poverty Point Period (ca. 1500-1350 BC). At least two more mounds were built at this time. Following a period of flooding that buried much of the Poverty Point landscape, mound building resumed in the Early Woodland Period (ca. 500 BC). Mounds B and C are Mississippi Period constructions (ca. AD 1200-1600).
