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Etowah Indian Mounds, on the Etowah River south of Cartersville in Bartow County, is a 54-acre Mississippian-culture town occupied in three phases between roughly 1000 and 1550 CE. Its six earthen mounds, including the 63-foot Temple Mound (Mound A), a plaza, borrow pits, and a defensive ditch make it, according to Georgia State Parks, the most intact Mississippian site in the Southeast; Warren K. Moorehead's 1925 excavation of Mound C yielded elite burial goods central to defining the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and added to the National Register in 1966, the site is managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and remains sacred to the Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee peoples.
About this site
Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic Site is a state historic site in Bartow County, Georgia. It is one of 265 historic sites cataloged in Bartow County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.1219, -84.7686. The nearest cataloged historic site is Emerson City Cemetery (cemetery), about 0.6 miles away. Others within a short drive include Emerson, Dobbs Family Cemetery, and Damascus - Bartow Cemetery.
This record is drawn from the Georgia DNR Historic Preservation Division. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Etowah Indian Mounds, on the Etowah River south of Cartersville in Bartow County, is a 54-acre Mississippian-culture town occupied in three phases between roughly 1000 and 1550 CE. Its six earthen mounds, including the 63-foot Temple Mound (Mound A), a plaza, borrow pits, and a defensive ditch make it, according to Georgia State Parks, the most intact Mississippian site in the Southeast; Warren K. Moorehead's 1925 excavation of Mound C yielded elite burial goods central to defining the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and added to the National Register in 1966, the site is managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and remains sacred to the Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee peoples.
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