Monday, September 20, 2010

Civil War and Indian Ruins.

While we had visitors in August we took a trip up North a couple of hours. We visited a few ancient Indian mounds and a big battle site from the Civil War. The Etowah Indian mounds were pretty cool. The boys had fun running in the open fields.Parker and Jason became really good friends.A view from on the largest mound looking down at a few of the lower class mounds. The chief lived on the biggest and then his 'first counselor' lived on the next largest. The tribe would be on ground level.



Nikki with baby Auriana near the river where the tribe would catch fish.
The boys had to take some time to throw rocks in the river. It is such a boy thing to do.
Our family photo in front of a replica home of the Etowah tribe.
Chickamauga Civil War site is really large. You can drive around the park and then call a number on your cell phone to get the details of what happened at each stop. It's pretty interesting. A few years after the war they had a reunion of sorts and any group of soldiers (any size) put up a monument. Many of them showed the State they were from and some of them were similar in design but there were a lot of monuments around.




This was a tower than I think was built during the time of the war, but I can't remember the details all that well.
We had fun visiting sites that we hadn't considered before. Hopefully we can do more of these types of outings before we leave Georgia.

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