Mound Bottom

Mound Bottom is a Tennessee historical marker in Cheatham County.

Cheatham Co, TN 1 (US 70), 1 mile west of bridge over Harpeth River

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To the south is one of the mounds erected by the Mound Builders, prehistoric inhabitants of this region, ante-dating the Indians. Numerous other such mounds are found to the northwest, in a bend of the Harpeth River.

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Historical maps covering this location

1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1797 · Tennassee Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1930 · White Bluff, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1933 · White Bluff, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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Mound Bottom

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