Free Bird's Adventures: 2017 January 20, Friday, The new Florence Indian Mound & Museum

Friday, January 20, 2017

2017 January 20, Friday, The new Florence Indian Mound & Museum

The Florence Indian Mound Museum
The new building is lined with stairs on either side and a wheelchair ramp all leading to the front door.

Florence Indian Mound Museum

There are two bus parks, two wheelchair parks, two parks near the front, and about 4 or 5 parking spaces near the end of the drive.
Once inside you will see to your left a learning center, and restrooms, and straight in front of you are Native American Artifacts with pictures of Indians who once lived in the area.

Native American Artifacts
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
Ancient Indian Proverb

Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for students.
Next, you walk into a simulated cave with stalactites hanging from the ceiling, and scattered on the floor of the cave are arrowheads.

simulated cave with stalactites

Several exhibits tell the story through the time of the early Native Indians, the Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian.

Encased behind glass are Indian artifacts that date back thousands of years. Included are Indian dresses, ceremonial masks, tools, arrowheads, pots, and baskets.

In the forest room, you can sit down on a bench and listen to Tom Hendrix tell the history of the Native Americans that once lived in North America.
The Trail of Tears and its history is also displayed.

Indian artifacts

The mound itself is one of the Tennessee Valley's largest and oldest ceremonial Indian mounds.
The namesake cultural trait of the Mound Builders was the building of mounds and other earthworks. These burial and ceremonial structures were typically flat-topped pyramids or platform mounds, flat-topped or rounded cones, elongated ridges, and sometimes a variety of other forms. They were generally built as part of complex villages that arose from more dense populations, with a specialization of skills and knowledge.