![]() By the time of the other surveys and investigations it is no longer mentioned and its location is still under investigation. Dickeson was the only one to mention the third mound, which he described as smaller than the others and being further reduced by cultivation of its surface. Mound B is located to the southeast and is 4 metres (13 ft) in height and has a historic cemetery on its summit. ![]() Dickeson in 1841 and 5.5 metres (18 ft) in height and 40 metres (131 ft) in length on the top by Calvin Brown in 1916. It is currently 8 metres (26 ft) in height but was recorded as being 6.1 metres (20 ft) in height and 45.7 metres (150 ft) in circumference by Montroville W. ![]() Mound A sits directly on the bank of Second Creek and more than half of its mass has been lost due to the creek eroding into it. It was occupied during both the Coles Creek period (700–1000 CE) and the later Plaquemine Mississippian period (1000–1680 CE), when it was recorded in historic times as the White Apple village of the Natchez. The site is located on the west bank of Second Creek, a tributary of the Homochitto River and consisted of three platform mounds and a central plaza. It was added to the NRHP on October 23, 1991, as NRIS number 91001529. It is also the location of the historic period White Apple Village of the Natchez people and the Mazique Plantation. The Mazique Archeological Site ( 22 AD 502), also known as White Apple Village, is a prehistoric Coles Creek culture archaeological site located in Adams County, Mississippi.
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