C-SPAN Cities Tour- Macon: Ocmulgee National Monument

Visit the Ocmulgee National Monument, an area that preserves traces of over ten millennia of Southeastern Native American culture, including major earthworks built more than 1,000 years ago by the South Appalachian Mississippian culture. These include the Great Temple and other ceremonial mounds, a burial mound, and defensive trenches. The site has evidence of "17,000 years of continuous human habitation. Visit the mounds and see some of the objects that were uncovered during a large-scale archaeological dig in the 1930s.

[@GualeOrigins]

Question, if the Creeks came from the west after the construction of the mounds, are they really descendants of the”Southeastern” mounds ?

[@ninjarecipes8324]

interesting!

[@toniesedrick691]

Truth, they took the Indian Red out of the box, when i was mere child, they called it black and white, even with their make shift, counter clockwise, water fountains, Hmmm, plant a garden and help it to grow, as truth, which never changes. Abba, is always God, the Holy One.

[@dawnten]

My Great Grandmother grew up in her Uncles home after her Mother died and his home was on top of one of these burial mounds during the late 1800's. Back before they knew any better. She told me she used to walk the land with my Great Grandfather who was courting her at the time and they used pick up arrow heads. Do you know when the park services took over this land? I would love to find out which mound it had been.

[@billiecook4067]

That would not have been at the area known as Ocmulgee National Monument. There were no modern structures on the mounds. The Dunlap family owned most of the property during most of the 1800-1900s. The park was established in the 1930s. There are many neighborhoods and houses very close in proximity to the mounds. So it was very common for early Macon residents to walk the areas of mounds and enjoy it much like a park even back in the 1800s. There was a house on top of Browns Mount which is nearby which was a poets retreat. There are also many mound sites scattered through out the Southeast, where there are mounds on personal property which might have homes on them.

[@dawnten]

Billie Coleman Thank You Billie. It just might have been the poets retreat. When i was a very small girl (I am 53) they said it was open to the public and turned into something, but never had taken me to see it while I was there. I wish the census had included addresses, but they hadn't. The property my great grandfather owned back then was on water and heard they made that into a gated community so hoping to be able to visit one of the places my family had lived when I visit. Thanks again! :-)

[@joshuahoward6845]

There were also civil war skirmishes/battles fought on this land I believe. I’ve been to this park and they have markers indicating trenches

[@judaprinxbeatz.8008]

STOP LYING LMAO YOU DAMN PALE FACE LIARS ALWAYS CLAIMING A LINEAGE YA'LL DON'T BELONG

[@judaprinxbeatz.8008]

@@billiecook4067 "OWNED" YOU MEAN STOLEN....

[@bethbartlett5692]

Truly sad the Smithsonian has been intentionally discarding fossils (skeletons) and artifacts. Admittedly

[@TheAbnormal]

Because such thinks like giant skeleton human bones can somehow discredit the theory of evolution

[@jakeruffin9433]

Can I get another uhhh