Town Creek Indian Mound. Photograph from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Tourism Division
Field trip opportunities
- Town Creek Indian Mound (NC Historic Site) (Mount Gilead)
- This site provided by the North Carolina Division of Archives and History
contains information about visiting Town Creek, a section on Montgomery County
and the vicinity, a Native American Cultural Synopsis, and a section on the Pee
Dee Culture.
Learn more about Montgomery County
Intrigue of the PastLesson plans and essays for teachers and students explore North Carolina's past before European contact. Designed for grades four through eight, the web edition of this book covers fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, and describes the peoples and cultures of the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods. From the UNC Research Laboratories of ArchaeologyArchaeological sites open to the public
Native American sites Macon County: Nikwasi Mound A small platform mound maintained as a park by the city of Franklin. This mound was built during the Misissippian period. A Cherokee townhouse constructed...
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The village farmers
Long ago, when the world was new, an old woman lived with her grandson in the shadow of the big mountain. They lived happily together until the boy was seven years old. Then his Grandmother gave him his...
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Town Creek Indian Mound (NC Historic Site)
Six hundred years ago a group of Native Americans settled on the spot where the Town Creek center is today. The spot held a fortified refuge and a sacred ritual ground. The Pee Dee culture once inhabited...
Archaeological sites open to the public
Intrigue of the Past
Republished with permission from the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Intrigue of the Past: North Carolina's First Peoples results from a marriage...
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