From Ice-Age hunters to the Muscogee (Creek) people of historic times, there is evidence here of 12,000 years of human habitation. Between AD 900 and 1200 a skillful farming people lived on this site. Known as Mississippians, they were part of a distinctive culture which crystallized about AD 750 in the middle Mississippi Valley and over the next seven centuries spread along riverways throughout much of the central and eastern United States. The Mississippians brought a more complex way of life to the region and here they left behind eight earthen mounds and the remains of a ceremonial earthlodge. The Monument today consists of two units separated by two miles of riverine wetlands along the Ocmulgee River. The Main Unit is adjacent to the city of Macon. The isolated Lamar Mounds and Village Unit can be visited by special permit.
Location:
1207 Emery Highway, Macon Georgia 31217
Telephone
478-752-8257
(Macon) Ocmulgee National Monument
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06/08 Coming to The Macon area
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