Hey, Ron! Did you know about this?

OCMULGEE OLD FIELDS:

The National Park Service established Ocmulgee National Monument (ONM) at Macon during the 1930s to preserve some of these historical resources.

Two extraordinary mound complexes are the most prominent cultural features of the Old Fields region. The expansive Macon Plateau Mound complex (900-1100 AD), is contained within the main ONM unit. The so-called Lamar Mound complex (1400 to 1550 AD) exists on separate ONM property south of the main unit. There were, however, at least three other confirmed mound complexes within Old Fields region. Two of these sites were essentially destroyed in development of Macon; only remnants of the third complex remain.

The Old Fields region is also the location of a number identified and unidentified, post -1550 Muscogean Tribal Town sites, as well as a great number of earlier Muscogean settlement and cultural use sites that reflect the said 12,000 year evolutionary history of the Muscogee people. No other area in the Muscogee ancestral homeland comes close to matching the Ocmulgee Old Fields region in recording the depth and the scope of Muscogean occupation of the Southeast.

There has been some academic speculation that the Old Fields may have been the place of origin of the Muscogee Confederacy. While this cannot be confirmed, the Old Fields region was of critical importance in the political events that brought disparate Muscogean peoples into a cooperative political union that may have been the Confederacy as we regard it or some earlier evolutionary form of it.

Blah, blah... This would be more interesting if I were there looking at it. But the fact is, that there's a major "Creek" indian... well, it's a National Monument... within a few miles of you.

For anybody who doesn't know, we're part Creek.