WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of Georgia lawmakers is renewing ... on a plan to increase the Ocmulgee Mounds footprint to include a 50-mile stretch from Macon to Hawkinsville, saying the ...

The mounds they built ... to become America’s 64th National Park and Georgia’s first. To honor the area’s indigenous past, the city of Macon in March added bilingual street names in Muscogee ...

have introduced bipartisanship to establish Georgia’s first-ever National Park and Preserve. The new park would be centered around the culturally rich Ocmulgee Mounds in Macon. Spearheaded by U ...

The bill that would make the Ocmulgee Mounds in Macon Georgia’s first national park faced delays at the end of 2024, but initiative leaders remain hopeful. Margaret Walker The bill to make the ...

The entrance to the Earth Lodge sits along the paved path at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Macon, Georgia. After a failed effort in 2024, Georgia ...

Along Georgia’s Etowah River stands a 54-acre window into a forgotten American city. The Etowah Mounds rise six stories above the river valley, marking where thousands of Native Americans built one of ...

Federal lawmakers from Georgia ... Indian Period hunting Ice Age mammals,” lawmakers said in a joint statement. “Around 900 CE, the Mississippian Period began, and Muskogean people constructed ...

Georgia is one such state. Macon, Georgia is home to a historical park that contains over 17,000 years of historical artifacts. Ocmulgee Mounds is a beautiful grassy piece of land where a variety ...

ATLANTA — Federal lawmakers from Georgia reintroduced efforts to have the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical ... arrived in the area during the Paleo-Indian Period hunting Ice Age mammals ...