Great Temple Mound and Lesser Temple Mound
as seen from the Earthwork Lodge grounds
Funeral Mound
Village leaders were buried in this mound. More than 100 burials have been uncovered,
many with shell and copper ornaments.
Like the temple mounds, this mound was built in successive stages. This structure that stood on top at each
stage may have been used in preparing the dead for burial. The present height corresponds to the third
stage. Much of the mound was destroyed by
a railroad cut in the 1870’s.
The funeral mound once stood almost 25 feet high with deep
pits extending more than eight feet below ground level. The mound was built in at least seven
stages. About seven feet of material was
removed from the top including portions of stages 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Lesser Temple Mound and Great Temple Mound
as seen from the Funeral Mound which shows the road that destroyed part of the Lesser Mound
Great Temple Mound
view as you climb the walkway to the top
above the tree tops
view of the city of Macon, GA from the top of the mound
Funeral Mound in the distance
Earth Lodge in the distance with part of the trading post to the left of the path
outline of the trading post
English traders from Charleston, S.C., eager to do business
with the Creek Indians, built the first trading post on this site about
1690. They traded firearms, cloth and
trinkets for deerskins and furs.
Excavations have turned up many good, including, axes, clay pipes,
beads, knives, swords, flints, pistols and muskets.
Lesser Temple Mound
Archeologist estimate about three-fourths of this mound was removed by railroad construction. It is a truncated (flat-topped) pyramid originally about 120 feet in diameter at it widest point and almost 12 feet high. A soil profile taken on the northern face suggest the mound was constructed in four distinct phases.
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