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As an historic unit of the Park Service, the national monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. In 1997, the NPS designated Ocmulgee Old Fields as a Traditional Cultural Property , the first such site named east of the Mississippi River .
Both mound sites are part of the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, a national park and historic district created in 1936 and run by the U.S. National Park Service. [2] Historians and archaeologists have theorized that the site is the location of the main village of the Ichisi encountered by the Hernando de Soto expedition in 1539. [3]
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.
Fort Hawkins was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [1] in 1977. The City of Macon acquired the historic site in 2002 with help from the state's Greenspace Program and the Peyton Anderson Foundation. After redevelopment, the city and Commission plan to use the fort site as a greenspace park and as a history center for ...
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A grassroots movement designed to bring the importation designation to the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park is awaiting action in Congress.
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 ...
Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia could join Yellowstone and Yosemite on the list of America's national parks.