Etowah Mounds

A National Historic Landmark, Etowah is the most intact Mississippian mound center in the Southeast. Its great platform mounds once supported temples and elite residences in a town ringed by a defensive ditch and palisade along the river.

Etowah Mounds is a historical marker in Cartersville, Bartow County, erected in 1964. It is one of 139 historical markers documented in Bartow County, among 265 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 34.1282, -84.8072 near Cartersville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Remote Sensing at Etowah (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Etowah’s Wattle and Daub House, The Defensive Ditch/Borrow Pit, and A Return to Native Grasses.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.