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Town Creek palisade and guard tower

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Creator
David Walbert
Date created
November 6, 2007
Location
North Carolina
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Photograph of wooden and clay palisade and guard tower at Town Creek Indian Mound.

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At Town Creek, visitors enter through a guard tower built into the palisade surrounding the town. The palisade — a walled enclosure protecting the town — was made of vertical logs held together with a mixture of clay and straw. When Town Creek was inhabited, the palisade protected the Pee Dee Indian residents from the local Siouan tribes, with whom they clashed over territory.