Welcome to Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. This park is a
prehistoric American Indian site, where many different American Indian
cultures occupied this land for thousands of years. American Indians first
came here during the Paleo-Indian Period hunting Ice Age mammals. Around 900
CE, the Mississippian Period began, and people constructed mounds for their
elite, which remain here today.

Welcome to Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. This park is a prehistoric American Indian site, where many different American Indian cultures occupied this land for thousands of years. American Indians first came here during the Paleo-Indian Period hunting Ice Age mammals. Around 900 CE, the Mississippian Period began, and people constructed mounds for their elite, which remain here today.

The earth Lodge floor is original it was carbon dated to 1015.

Earth Lodge Floor

The Funeral Mound was by prehistoric cultures to bury their dead. Today there are still remains instead the mound

The Funeral Mound

The Great Temple Mound is the largest mound at the park, it stands at 55 feet tall.

Great Temple and Lesser Temple Mound

The Earth Lodge was used as a council chamber for the Mississippian Culture (900-1600)

Earth Lodge

This Clovis point is the first spear found east of the Mississippi River. It was carbon dated to 10,000 BC

Clovis Point

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is the result of cooperative conservation
efforts of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy. Its
diversity of habitat types – ranging from mixed hardwood/pine ridges to
bottomland hardwoods and swamp forests mixed with creeks, beaver swamps and
oxbow lakes – contribute to an integrated system of scenic, historic and
recreational resources along the Ocmulgee River. The refuge fills a vital role
as a place for the conservation and management of the fish, wildlife, and
plants of the Ocmulgee River ecosystem.

<p><span>Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is the result of cooperative conservation efforts of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy. Its diversity of habitat types – ranging from mixed hardwood/pine ridges to bottomland hardwoods and swamp forests mixed with creeks, beaver swamps and oxbow lakes – contribute to an integrated system of scenic, historic and recreational resources along the Ocmulgee River. The refuge fills a vital role as a place for the conservation and management of the fish, wildlife, and plants of the Ocmulgee River ecosystem.</span></p>

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

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