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Old Town (Williamson)
Trip No.3 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 25th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Old Town (Williamson) submitted by bat400 on 25th Aug 2007. The visible remains of Old Town's mounds can be seen in this pasture on the Natchez Trace just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.
Photo by bat 2004 June 2007.
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Moundville Archeological Park
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2008
Moundville Archeological Park submitted by bat400 on 23rd Jul 2008. Moundville at sunset.
Photo by bat400, June 2008.
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Lake Okeechobee
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Oct 2008
Lake Okeechobee submitted by bat400 on 2nd Oct 2008. Lake Okeechobee. Taken from the eastern shore of the lake, north of Belle Glade. Heavy rains from the 2008 Hurricane season have increased the water levels slightly, but drought conditions still are reducing the lake depth in some areas. As you can see, Okeechobee is too wide to see the opposite shore.
Photo - bat400, Sept 2008.
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Castalian Springs Mounds
Trip No.3 Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bledsoe's Lick Mound submitted by bat400 on 29th Jun 2006. The Mississippian platform mound at Castalian Springs, Sumner County, TN (formerly Bledsoe's Lick.)
The conical mound with a flattened top was built on the west end of a broad rectangular platform. The structure is much reduced by plowing over the years. However, the ground has been undisturbed for a number of years. The property is now owned and protected by the state.
Photo by bat400, June 2006.
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Log Text: I visited in 2006 while the Middle Tennessee University was conducting a dig, not of the mound itself, but of the footprint of several buildings which were visible from the traces of postholes and (to less evidence, walls.) Very interesting. Meet Dr. Smith, who was very gracious with his time and explanations.
Boyd Mounds
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Boyd Mounds submitted by Flickr on 29th Dec 2018. Boyd Site 1 Mound Image copyright: alopezruiz (Alejandro Lopez Ruiz), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Walk completely around the mounds to better understand the construction. An interpretive sign provides more information.
Bear Creek
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bear Creek submitted by Flickr on 6th Jan 2019. Kristen for scale, Bear Creek mound Image copyright: alfred.crabtree (Alfred Crabtree), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Emerald Mound, Mississippi
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Emerald Mound, Mississippi submitted by bat400 on 4th Sep 2012. Emerald Mound, the southern exposure.
Photo by bat400, October 2011.
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Log Text: The mound is immense and can only be appreciated by a climb to the top.
Strickland Mound Complex
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Log Text: Ask a park ranger for directions to these mounds. They are on a footpath and marked once to arrive, however the path entrance from a picnic and boat launch area is not identified for the Strickland Mounds. They may not be accessible year round as the area is closed off during bird nesting times. Wear insect repellant at any time of the year to visit this location.
Nocoroco
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2009. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Nocoroco submitted by Flickr on 19th Dec 2018. Spanish Heritage Trail, Ormond Beach (Photos by Julie Fletcher) Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens is an urban oasis. The gardens are a lush, tropic rainforest nestled into the heart of the Ormond beachside adjoining the museum. Inside the work of prominent Florida, regional and national artist, are featured.
Tomoka State Park in Ormond Beach, Florida, contains the Nocoroco Site, a Timucuan Indian village reported by Spanish explorers in the early 1600's as the first south of St. Augusti...
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Log Text: The village site is on a spit of land extending into a bay area. You can drive right into the area as a picnic area with shelterhouses is located there. The only visible evidence of the original village are midden mounds all around the perimiter - they are not particularly noticable although some of them are quite large.
The most notable feature is a strange, deteriorating Art Deco sculpture of a sort of pyramid of Indian men. This was once a fountain and pool depicting an "Indian Legand" which may have been entirely fabricated in the 20th century.
Windover (Florida)
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Couldn't find on 1st Sep 2009
Windover (Florida) submitted by bat400_photo on 9th Jan 2014. "This is a peat bog accidentally discovered in 1982 which preserved the burials of native americans 7,000 to 8,000 years ago. It is located in dense woods and hard to find ... but locals who are proud of the site will help you find it."
12 March 2012, 17:24:15
Author: Roy Klotz MD
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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Log Text: I drove passed this site multiple times without knowing it (while hunting for it!) Despite the pond's location directly along a paved road through a housing estate, there is no place to stop and look at the pond without walking through a private home's back garden or "bushwacking" through Florida underbrush. As described in the site listing, you are better off visiting the Brevard County History and Science Museum and asking them if any visits to the site are planned.
Snyder's Mound
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Snyder's Mound submitted by Flickr on 19th Dec 2018. The Mound This is a man made hill in Lake Seminole Park...of course, this is not THE lake that the Park is named after. Image copyright: gstephenson54 (Gayle Stephenson), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: See my description in the site listing. I visited very early in the morning, before any tours of the Instone house, so I am unsure if the docents or rangers provide much information about the mound or original Indian village.
Lower Jackson
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2
Lower Jackson submitted by bat400 on 30th Aug 2012. The distant view of Lower Jackson Mound from across the cotton fields.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2011.
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Log Text: A marker just off the road identifies the mound, which can be made out from across the cotton fields. Unimproved farm roads provide a way to get closer, but they are all on private land, so you can only view the mound from a distance. The view will be best after the cotton ripens, and the leaves fall off the plants, or, after harvest in the winter.
Grand Village of Natchez Indians
Date Added: 29th Aug 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by bat400 on 30th Aug 2012. Reconstructions of Natchez house and granary from the time of first contact with the Spanish and French (16th-17th C).
Photo by bat400, Oct 2011.
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Log Text: Interesting site for a short visit. The mounds are reconstructions based on the footprints discovered during excavations. And the layout tells you something about the size of the village.
The small museum is worth a visit, as is a trip to the huge Emerald Mound, outside of Natchez. A comparison of the collossal Emerald Mound ceremonial site to this modest one, seemed to me to tell a lot about the devastation caused by the introduction of "Old World" disease to the Americas.
Admision to the site is free but a donation is suggested.
Tendal Mound
Date Added: 11th Sep 2015
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Tendal Mound submitted by bat400 on 29th Aug 2012. Tendal Mound taken from the east side, showing how the modern house was built in the approximate center of this low platform mound.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2011.
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Natchez Trace
Date Added: 11th Sep 2015
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Natchez Trace submitted by bat400 on 6th Sep 2012. A portion of the original Trace. When the trail passed through areas of soft soils, or places where the trail itself was easily flooded, the trail is sunken, sometimes for miles.
Photo by bat400, October 2011.
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Mangum Mound
Date Added: 11th Sep 2015
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Mangum Mound submitted by bat400 on 4th Sep 2012. Magnum Mound.
Photo by bat400, October 2011.
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Sellars Farm
Trip No.3 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes
Sellars Farm submitted by AKFisher on 11th Aug 2023. Archaeological reconstruction of the Sellars/Lindsley Mound complex near Nashville from an official display at the site. Several of the large mounds exist as well as many of the smaller elevated "house" mounds. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: I have not yet visited this site, but I wish to add it to a planned trip blog.
Mound Bottom
Trip No.3 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes
Mound Bottom submitted by AKFisher on 29th Jul 2023.
Archaeological reconstruction of the Mound Bottom, Tennessee mound complex from the mound encyclopedia. The site is enclosed by a horseshoe bend in the Harpeth River with a small, narrow band of land yielding access. It is a 500 acre site that is today a state park with restricted access. It was "found" in 1804 and had 14 large platform mounds. It was constructed in AD 700 and inhabited until 1300. Some information on the site is at the Visitors Center at the nearby Montgomery Bell State Park....
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Log Text: I have not yet visited this site, but I wish to add it to a planned trip blog.
Tennessee State Museum
Trip No.3 Entry No.1 Date Added: 18th Jun 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Tennessee State Museum submitted by bat400 on 11th Sep 2007. Tennessee State Museum. Mississippian era effigy jar, described as a "monster". I'm unaware of 2D depictions of such beasts in what's known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex art styles.
Photo by bat400 July 2006.
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Log Text: The section on "the First Tennesseans" takes up only a portion of this downtown city museum. The bulk of the artifacts on display are from the Vanderbilt University collection of Gates Thurston (1835-1912.)
McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture submitted by bat400 on 23rd Apr 2017. Siltstone figures found at the Sellars Farm site in 1939. The kneeling male figure (left) is 20 inches tall.
Photo taken in 2013.
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