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Ocmulgee NM
Coordinates: 32.8388, -83.6077 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Ocmulgee National Monument
This park is a prehistoric American Indian site. American Indians first came here during the Paleo-Indian period hunting Ice Age mammals. Many different American Indian cultures occupied this land for thousands of years. Around 900 CE, the Mississippian Period began. They constructed mounds for their elite, which remain today.

Ocmulgee National Monument is located along the Ocmulgee River in central Georgia at the "Fall Line," a unique strip of land stretching from South Carolina across Georgia into Alabama. Millions of years ago, ocean waves pounded the southeastern shoreline of the North American continent. The warm sea deposited sand, silt and marine clay along the beach. Gradually, the sea retreated and revealed a sandy plain. This former beach with its dunes remained as a narrow band separating the Coastal Plain from the rolling, rocky hills of the Piedmont to the North. The environmental variations within this region afford diverse natural resources and habitat for a rich variety of plants and wildlife, including a number of endangered and threatened species. The park's 702 acres encompass upland fields and forests, and wetlands along Walnut Creek and the river. The Ocmulgee River Heritage Greenway provides an undeveloped corridor between Ocmulgee National Monument and Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge downriver. From Ocmulgee National Monument webpage

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