Adams Site (15Fu4)

Near Hickman in Fulton County, on Bayou de Chien, a creek that drains into the nearby Mississippi, the Adams Site (15Fu4) is a Mississippian (opens in a new tab) town of about 7.25 hectares built over an earlier Late Woodland village. Platform mounds stand around a central plaza, with a smaller plaza southwest of the largest mound.

People lived here from about 1100 to 1500 CE, through the Medley (1100–1300) and Jackson (1300–1500) phases of the local chronology. Village middens around the mounds run 1 to 1.5 meters deep, a sign of long habitation. Other Mississippian towns in far western Kentucky include Wickliffe and Sassafras Ridge.

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The Adams Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is not a public visitor site, so its map pin is rounded to about 10 km.