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According to Muscogee oral tradition, the mounds area was "the place where we first sat down", after their ancestors ended their migration journey from the West. [16] In 1690, Scottish fur traders from Carolina built a trading post on Ochese Creek (Ocmulgee River), near the Macon Plateau
Located in Macon, the Ocmulgee Mounds Park and Preserve is already designated a National Historical Park and contains over 17,000 years of historical artifacts. “This week, we took a historic ...
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.
In February 2017, the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, officially setting in motion a plan to expand and protect the ...
Georgia's Republican and Democratic leaders are working together to try and make Ocmulgee Mounds the first National Park and Preserve in Georgia.
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.
Just across the Ocmulgee River from downtown Macon, the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park represents more than 12,000 years of continuous human habitation. The last of several prehistoric ...
A grassroots movement designed to bring the importation designation to the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park is awaiting action in Congress. Macon’s Ocmulgee Mounds expected to become ...