89 Alabama Indigenous Mound Trail Discovering Alabama 

Dr. Phillips, you and this show series are a Treasure to the people and the state of Alabama ! Thank you for all the work you and your team have done over the years and continue to do, further educating people like myself on every aspect of history about Alabama. - Alan Fendley McCalla

As an aside, an historical plaque in the park in Florala, Alabama on Lake Jackson reads: "Lake Jackson. Andrew Jackson in Seminole War with an army of 1200 troops camped here in May, 1818 enroute westward from Fort Gadsden to subdue maurading Indians abetted by the Spanish at Pensacola. Jackson determined to seize Pensacola and thus altered the course of history on this continent". When I read this plaque it occured to me that that was the kind of Indian I would have wanted to be. A Marauding Indian.

I am from Fort Walton Beach Fl. There is a burial mound right in Downtown.

I know where some Indian mounds are at in Winston county Alabama off of HWY 5.

12:03 PLEASE tell me that kid is not carrying some pesticide applicator. 😨 Maybe it's just water for screening sand for objects. 😬

So many lives and stories played out here, most of which is lost to time. As a student watching this for Archaeology class, I find this incredibly fascinating! Thank you!

"Development is definitely done at the peril of the past." Matthew Gage 9:31

I wonder if the railroad companies also destroyed the artifacts found inside the mounds?

Thank you for educating people on this subject. There were also mounds along the Tennessee river in Guntersville area and others I’m sure.

What about the snake effigies on Skeleton Mountain, and throughout the Choccolocco mountain range?

Well if you ever start excavating the Hamilton mounds let me know since I live in Hamilton because I would be more than willing to volunteer.

The Indian legends say they were there when thru arrived

This video inspired my book, Breaking Dawn by M. E. Carlisle (Amazon/Kindle, paperback).

I wonder why you haven't mentioned the Indian burial mound in Lillian Alabama. Do you not know of the mound or you just don't want people to know about it. I do know that it is on forever wild land and it was on the Lillian swamp hunting club.

I love our states history. ❤️ Roll Tide

Way to go Dr Phillips .... One of the best episodes of Discovering Alabama

My first guess about those mounds is that it is smarter to build higher up so that your building doesn't get as wet and so that you can see out over your land or crops better. If the lower land was for crops, the houses being so close by might help deter wildlife grazing at night. Dogs on top of the mounds could also see better from higher up.

I found a mound in Stockton that isnt on the registry. Its on the management land here in Stockton.

Moundville is too obvious looking . I think it was made by modern people as a replica

And the corps buried them under water. Greed before history.

What a wonderfully thoughtful episode.

What About The Mound(s) Of Lamar County, Alabama Near The City Of Vernon. It is located near Hells Creek and near the Hightogy Community. Carl M. Thornton Lamar County, Alabama, USA...

Lebron built the mounds

I think the mounds in moundville are fake and we’re made by some professionals that wanted a site to study and raise money

I've lived in AL 40 yrs & did not know this. THANK YOU❗️

Why is Moundville so perfectly maintained and all the others are mostly destroyed

Mounds under tue ten river west of waterloo as well

Indians and Native Americans are not the same. The Indians are the indigenous Americans not the NA.

They was darker

2K years? It goes further back. The mounds were built by light skinned read haired 8 to 12 foot peoples.

A new discovery may ne coming soon!