EMERALD MOUND
Site — Natchez, Mississippi
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/emerald-mound-natchez-mississippi/

The second-largest mound in America—35 feet of Mississippian earthwork.

A site in Natchez, Mississippi, Emerald Mound is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The second-largest mound in America—35 feet of Mississippian earthwork. The archive files it under Indigenous heritage, archaeology and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.

Emerald Mound is the second-biggest mound in America — the 35-foot Mississippian platform that covers eight acres, the ceremonial center that was the Natchez Nation's principal town before 1680. De Soto's horsemen rode up to the flat top in the 1540s; the mound was already 150 years old.
The mound was the capital — the platform with the two secondary mounds and the plaza between, the buildings on the summits that held the political and religious leaders. The Natchez moved the capital to the Grand Village; the mound stayed.
The mound is still there — the Natchez Trace Parkway site, the restored platform, the second-largest earthwork after Cahokia. The file keeps the mound: the 1200 construction, the de Soto sighting, and the platform that's the Natchez's monument.
Emerald Mound is the archive's mound file — the second-largest in America, the Natchez capital, and the platform that outlasted the nation.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Emerald Mound is the archive's mound file — the Natchez ceremonial center, the eight-acre platform, and the mound that de Soto saw in use.
A mound that was a capital keeps its platform — the file's suggestion being that Emerald's hold is the plaza: the secondary mounds, the leaders' buildings, and the platform that's the Natchez's seat.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported a presence on the mound. Emerald Mound's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. The claim holds its place in the ledger.
  source: Emerald Mound (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Mound)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The mound’s ~1250-1600 construction is documented. Emerald Mound's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Emerald Mound'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Emerald Mound — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Mound

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