Etowah Indian Mounds State Park

Etowah Indian Mounds State Park can be found at Indian Mounds Road Southwest in Cartersville, Georgia and is about an hour's drive from Atlanta. This was home to Native Americans between 1000 AD and 1550 AD and many of the artifacts and sights can still be seen to this day. Visitors can come to the park Wednesday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm but it remains closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.

Among the things to be seen at this 54-acre site are six earthen mounds, a plaza, village area, borrow pits and a defensive ditch. The mounds can be very large with Mound C for example towering 63-feet over the site and can be accessed by way of some stairs. Visitors to the site can learn more about the community that lived here all those years ago at the museum.

There are many artifacts that show how people decorated themselves with beads, tattoos, paint, feathers and copper ear ornaments and often had complicated hairdos. Visitors will also see well preserved effigies and objects made of wood as well as shells and stones. A nature trail can be followed too that leads to the Etowah River and heads through the forest.