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Moundville, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Hale. Associated ZIP codes: 35474.
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Moundville is in Hale County, Alabama.
Region: Central Alabama
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An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Moundville takes its name from one of the greatest ancient sites in North America. From about A.D. 1100, a powerful Native American chiefdom had its political and ceremonial capital here on the Black Warrior River. At its height in the 13th century it was, according to a state marker, the largest community in North America north of Mexico, a town of 1,000 to 3,000 people protected by a mile-long wooden palisade with guard towers, at the center of a chiefdom of about 10,000 people living in villages along 60 miles of the river valley. Its people built more than two dozen massive flat-topped earthen mounds around a vast central plaza as platforms for civic and ceremonial buildings and the homes of nobles. Sources differ slightly on the count, 28 or 29 mounds, and on when the site was abandoned, around 1500 or as late as 1650.
Moundville's craftspeople made religious and political objects in a distinctive style found at mound centers across the Southeast, and many of today's Southeastern tribes claim ancestral ties to its builders. Amateur archaeologist Clarence B. Moore wrote in 1910 that no group of mounds in the South could compare. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and is preserved as the 300-acre Moundville Archaeological Park. The modern town was incorporated on December 22, 1908. In the 1930s photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee documented the lives of tenant farmers near Moundville in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Moundville (Alabama Historical Commission) The Historical Marker Database: Moundville Archaeological Park (Alabama Indigenous Mound Trail) Wikipedia: Moundville, Alabama
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