Kids Spring Break Day Camp To Be Held At Etowah Mounds

CARTERSVILLE, GA — A Jr Ranger Spring Break Day Camp will be held at Etowah Mounds, in Cartersville, Tuesday through Friday, April, 2-5, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

For a day or for the week, Junior Rangers age 6 and up can join rangers for tours of the site, do activities, and play games to learn about history and nature during our local area’s Spring Break.

The cost is $4-6 admission fee and $80 program fee for the week, or $20 per day. Pre- registration required by March 23 – Space limited to 20 participants a day.

Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic Site is located at 813 Indian Mounds Rd. S.E.

For more information call (770) 387-3747 or visit the website.

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Home to several thousand Native Americans from 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D., this 54-acre site protects six earthen mounds, a plaza, village site, borrow pits and defensive ditch. Etowah Mounds is the most intact Mississippian Culture site in the Southeast. Artifacts in the museum show how natives of this political and religious center decorated themselves with shell beads, paint, complicated hairdos, feathers and copper ear ornaments. Hand-carved stone effigies weighing 125 pounds still bear some original pigments. Objects made of wood, seashells and stone are also displayed.
Visitors can follow a nature trail along the Etowah River where they can view a v-shaped fish trap used for catching fish. The trail also highlights how early civilizations used native trees for food and medicine

While only nine percent of this site has been excavated, examination at Mound C and surrounding artifacts revealed much about the people who lived here. They were a society rich in ritual. Towering over the community, the 63-foot earthen knoll was likely used as a platform for the home of the priest-chief. In another mound, nobility were buried in elaborate costumes accompanied by items they would need in their after-lives.