George Bagby State Park
Fort Gaines, Georgia
Components: Interpretive panels; Artifact cases; Cermic reproductions
In 1974, several Native American ceremonial mounds were found eroding into the Chattahoochee River in present-day George Bagby State Park. Archaeologists with the Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the National Park Service conducted excavations at Cemochechobee in the late 1970s. Cemochechobee is a Mississippian religious and political center occupied between A.D. 900 and 1400.
The History Workshop recently designed an exhibit that incorporates interpretive panels and artifact life of the former residents of this area. The artifact exhibit incorporates reproductions of real vessels that typically cannot be displayed due to their sacred nature. These reproductions highlight the beautiful craftsmanship and creativity of the prehistoric potters as well as provide insight into their world of symbolism and cosmology.