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Like many other sites in central Tennessee during the Mississippian period the Brick Church Pike Mounds Site was a multi-mound village with an encircling defensive palisade. [2] The site had a large platform mound (Mound A) 23 feet (7.0 m) high and 155 feet (47 m) on the north–south axis by 147 feet (45 m)on the east–west axis and several ...
Stone box graves were a method of burial used by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture in the Midwestern United States and the Southeastern United States. Their construction was especially common in the Cumberland River Basin, in settlements found around present-day Nashville, Tennessee .
Davidson County is the oldest county in the 41-county region of Middle Tennessee.It dates to 1783, shortly after the end of the American Revolution, when the North Carolina legislature created the county and named it in honor of William Lee Davidson, [4] a North Carolina general who was killed opposing the crossing of the Catawba River by General Cornwallis's British forces on February 1, 1781.
Dover chert "swords" similar to objects in the Duck River cache, found at the Etowah Mounds site in Georgia. The cache has been called "perhaps the most spectacular single collection of prehistoric Native American art ever discovered in the eastern United States". [2] "
The attack on Buchanan's Station, successfully repelled by its defenders, was the final major Native attack on American settlements in the Cumberland, although smaller raids would continue. [5] In The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century , historian J. G. M. Ramsey called the actions of the fifteen gunmen "a feat of bravery ...
Pages in category "Native American tribes in Tennessee" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Tennessee placenames of Native American origin (6 P) Pages in category "Native American history of Tennessee" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Location of Davidson County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...