Of the five original mounds located on the eastern bank of Steele Bayou, only Mounds A and B survive. At 40 and 16 feet respectively, Mounds A and B were built using a technique called basket loading. Archaeological excavations found evidence of at . . . — — Map (db m154734) HM
Unita Blackwell, born in a sharecropper's
shack in Lula, Mississippi, on March 18, 1933,
became a SNCC activist in 1964 and
represented the MFDP at the 1964
Democratic National Convention. She was
instrumental in Head Start, MACE, and
the . . . — — Map (db m235171) HM
Aden Mounds consists of three mounds surrounding a rectangular plaza, the fourth side open to Jeff Davis Bayou. Mounds A and B are rectangular platform mounds nearly 10 feet in height. Mound C is no longer visible, but archaeologists discovered its . . . — — Map (db m154464) HM
The Steele's Bayou Expedition (March 14-27, 1863) was one of several Union efforts to bypass Confederate defenses at Snyder's Bluff by sending amphibious forces through the Delta's waterways. While the expedition ultimately failed in its objective, . . . — — Map (db m187815) HM