Among Georgia’s ancient sites, the Etowah Indian Mounds near Cartersville stand out as the most impressive and extensively studied. This complex includes six major mounds, a defensive ditch ...

Moving this legislation to create ... here during the Paleo-Indian Period hunting Ice Age mammals. Around 900 CE, the Mississippian Period began, and people constructed mounds for their elite ...

After receiving a spot on Time Magazine’s ‘World’s Greatest Places of 2025’ list, Macon’s Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park is in the limelight. A new bill proposes to expand the ...

The second major step in the process of the Ocmulgee Mounds becoming Georgia’s first and only national park will take place in just over two weeks. A federal bill to make Macon’s park a ...

Ocmulgee Mounds National State Park is one of the stops on the new Macon tourist attraction Georgia’s Trail of Legacy & Lore. Renowned Canadian sculptor Timothy Paul Schmalz sits with ...

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 ...

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 ...