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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.
The proposed Ocmulgee Mounds Park and Preserve would be Georgia's first national park. The area along the Ocmulgee River downstream from Macon in central Georgia includes mounds and other cultural ...
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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Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia could join Yellowstone and Yosemite on the list of America's national parks.
A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally. [1]