Historical Marker

Etowah (Tumlin) Mounds

Cartersville · Bartow County · Erected 2006

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The Story

These earthen mounds, built between roughly 1000 and 1550, were the heart of a fortified Mississippian town of thousands. Long misattributed to the Cherokee, the site was actually built by ancestors of the Muscogee (Creek) people.

About this site

Etowah (Tumlin) Mounds is a historical marker in Cartersville, Bartow County, erected in 2006. 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 34.1296, -84.8074 near Cartersville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Sunset Memory Gardens Cemetery (cemetery), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Etowah Mounds, Remote Sensing at Etowah, and Etowah’s Wattle and Daub House.

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

📍 34.1296, -84.8074 · Cartersville, Bartow County

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