Chickamauga Mound

Chickamauga Mound is a Tennessee historical marker in Hamilton County.

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Standing 200' to the west, Chickamauga Mound is an earthen mound that comprised the center of a Woodland-period town between c. 350-900 CE. Indigenous people often built mounds during this period as sacred places to bury their dead. This town also contained households, gardens, public spaces, and additional mounds, most of which were destroyed in the early 1970s by construction of the Roxbury Southern Mills Textile plant. Artifacts and historical records show that indigenous people lived at the mouth of South Chickamauga Creek from c. 8000 BCE until the Removal of 1838.

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1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1832 · Kentucky (Finley, 1832) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Tennessee. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Chickamauga Mound

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