Winterville, MS

Winterville is a census-designated place and unincorporated community located in Washington County, Mississippi, near Mississippi Highway 1. The Winterville site, a National Historic Landmark featuring more than twelve major earthwork mounds from the period of 11th to 15th centuries, is located near Winterville along Mississippi 1. Winterville is the type site of the Plaquemine Mississippian culture, from which the Natchez Indians descended. The short version is that Winterville carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Winterville: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Preceding cultures also constructed mounds in this area.