Museum Paper 20 (Revised)
1200-1400[1] | Great prehistoric city grows and thrives on banks of Warrior River, West-Central Alabama. |
1500[1] | City deserted. |
1897 | Town of Carthage, white settlement at site of deserted city, renamed Moundville because of numerous Indian mounds within its limits. |
1905-1906 | First archaeological excavations made at Moundville by Clarence B. Moore of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. |
1923 | Moundville Historical Society organized to arouse interest in preservation of mounds. Mrs. Jeff Powers, Jr., President. |
1929 | Alabama Museum of Natural History begins archaeological investigations at Moundville after purchasing 175 acres which include most of the 40 mounds in that area. |
1933 | Mound State Park established with the aid of the Federal Emergency Conservation Work Agency. |
1935 | Temporary museum building constructed at Mound State Park. |
1938-39 | Alabama Museum purchases additional land, enlarging Mound State Park to 301 acres which includes all the mounds in the area. |
1938 | Mound State Park renamed Mound State Monument. Civilian Conservation Corps, directed by National Park Service and the Alabama Museum of Natural History, begins large-scale de ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |