Description of Indian mound from the 1770s

Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Ever wonder what an Indian mound was like in the late eighteenth century? In the 1793 edition (published in Dublin) of William Bartram’s Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws…, Bartram (page 348) describes what he saw: