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Fewkes
Trip No.3 Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Fewkes submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Fewkes Site, Tennessee. Mound 2. Photo by bat400, July 2007.
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Log Text: Four visible mounds. They are believed to have been flat topped mounds for building sites, but they have been degraded over the years by plowing that only one is remotely of the classic four sided platform. The other three are rounded off and relatively low.
Placards describe the site briefly.
Old Town (Williamson)
Trip No.3 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 25th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Old Town (Williamson) submitted by bat400 on 25th Aug 2007. The visible remains of Old Town's mounds can be seen in this pasture on the Natchez Trace just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.
Photo by bat 2004 June 2007.
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Log Text: None
Castalian Springs Mounds
Trip No.3 Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bledsoe's Lick Mound submitted by bat400 on 29th Jun 2006. The Mississippian platform mound at Castalian Springs, Sumner County, TN (formerly Bledsoe's Lick.)
The conical mound with a flattened top was built on the west end of a broad rectangular platform. The structure is much reduced by plowing over the years. However, the ground has been undisturbed for a number of years. The property is now owned and protected by the state.
Photo by bat400, June 2006.
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Log Text: I visited in 2006 while the Middle Tennessee University was conducting a dig, not of the mound itself, but of the footprint of several buildings which were visible from the traces of postholes and (to less evidence, walls.) Very interesting. Meet Dr. Smith, who was very gracious with his time and explanations.
Sellars Farm
Trip No.3 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes
Sellars Farm submitted by AKFisher on 11th Aug 2023. Archaeological reconstruction of the Sellars/Lindsley Mound complex near Nashville from an official display at the site. Several of the large mounds exist as well as many of the smaller elevated "house" mounds. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: I have not yet visited this site, but I wish to add it to a planned trip blog.
Mound Bottom
Trip No.3 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes
Mound Bottom submitted by AKFisher on 29th Jul 2023.
Archaeological reconstruction of the Mound Bottom, Tennessee mound complex from the mound encyclopedia. The site is enclosed by a horseshoe bend in the Harpeth River with a small, narrow band of land yielding access. It is a 500 acre site that is today a state park with restricted access. It was "found" in 1804 and had 14 large platform mounds. It was constructed in AD 700 and inhabited until 1300. Some information on the site is at the Visitors Center at the nearby Montgomery Bell State Park....
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Log Text: I have not yet visited this site, but I wish to add it to a planned trip blog.
Tennessee State Museum
Trip No.3 Entry No.1 Date Added: 18th Jun 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Tennessee State Museum submitted by bat400 on 11th Sep 2007. Tennessee State Museum. Mississippian era effigy jar, described as a "monster". I'm unaware of 2D depictions of such beasts in what's known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex art styles.
Photo by bat400 July 2006.
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Log Text: The section on "the First Tennesseans" takes up only a portion of this downtown city museum. The bulk of the artifacts on display are from the Vanderbilt University collection of Gates Thurston (1835-1912.)