DeSoto Park Mounds

DeSoto Park Mounds is a Tennessee historical marker in Shelby County.

Shelby Co, Memphis on northwest corner of DeSoto Park

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This ancient Indian Village may well have been visited by DeSoto in 1541 and have been one of the towns he called Quiz Quiz. The two large mounds were built as substructures for Temples. During the years this site was incorporated within Fort Pickering. The westernmost mound was hollowed out to make a powder storeroom, and guns were entrenched on its summit overlooking the Mississippi River.

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Historical maps covering this location

1835 · Chickasaw Cession, Mississippi (1835) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1916 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1925 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1927 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1939 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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