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In 1997, the NPS designated Ocmulgee Old Fields as a Traditional Cultural Property, the first such site named east of the Mississippi River. The John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act , signed March 12, 2019, redesignated it as a national historical park and increased its size by about 2,100 acres. [ 23 ]
The Ocmulgee River and its tributaries provide drainage for some 6,180 square miles in parts of 33 Georgia counties, a large section of the Piedmont and coastal plain of central Georgia. [1] The Ocmulgee River basin has three river subbasins designated by the U.S. Geological Survey: the Upper Ocmulgee River subbasin (hydrologic unit code ...
Noted historian and de Soto researcher Charles M. Hudson theorized in the 1980s and 90s, that the de Soto entrada crossed the Ocmulgee River near the future site of Macon, Georgia, and that the Lamar Mounds may have been the location of the paramount town of the Ichisi. [3] This view has been supported by archaeologists who have worked at the site.
"If successful, Georgia’s new national park would provide 35 miles of protected river corridor along the Ocmulgee River, a hotspot for wildlife," the group said in a release. "Experts estimate ...
Georgia's congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday to protect some of the ancestral lands of the Muscogee tribe as a national park and preserve. The proposed Ocmulgee Mounds Park ...
The National Park Service announced Thursday that it has delivered to Congress its long-awaited study on whether the Ocmulgee River corridor in central Georgia meets the criteria to be managed as ...
Little Ochlockonee River; Little Ocmulgee River; Little Ogeechee River (Chatham County) Little Ogeechee River (Hancock County) Little Ohoopee River; Little River (Columbia County, Georgia) Little River (Etowah River tributary) Little River (Oconee River tributary) Little River (Withlacoochee River tributary) Little Satilla Creek; Little Satilla ...
Fort Hawkins was a fort built between 1806 and 1810 by the United States Army during President Thomas Jefferson's administration. Built in what is now Georgia on the Fall Line on the east side of the Ocmulgee River, the fort overlooked the Ocmulgee Old Fields.