Obion Mounds (40 HY 14) | |
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| Location | Henry County, Tennessee |
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| Nearest city | Paris, Tennessee |
| Coordinates | 36°24′19.87″N88°22′56.64″W / 36.4055194°N 88.3824000°W /36.4055194; -88.3824000 |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001790 |
| Added to NRHP | May 7, 1973[1] |
Obion Mounds (40 HY 14), also known as theWork Farm Site, is anarchaeological site of theMississippian culture located north ofParis,Henry County, Tennessee, on the north fork of theObion River. The site is the largest Mississippian site in western Tennessee and was probably inhabited by 1000 to 1100 CE.[2] and abandoned by 1300.[3] It consists of sevenplatform mounds surrounding aplaza measuring 200 feet (61 m) by 900 feet (270 m). The largest mound at the site was 500 feet (150 m) wide by 30 feet (9.1 m) tall with a ramp leading to its summit.[2] At one point the mounds and plaza were surrounded with a woodenpalisade.[3] The site also has 2 depressions thought to be borrow pits from which the soil to construct the mounds was taken. In 1845 the owner of the site, Solomon Hartsfield, was digging in one of the borrow pits when he discovered astone statue. The statue was later damaged in a house fire during the late 19th century and only its head now remains. It is the only Mississippian site in western Tennessee to have produced such a statue. Similar statues have been found at theAngel Mounds site nearEvansville, Indiana and theWare Mounds site inUnion County, Illinois.[2]
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| South Appalachian Mississippian |
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| Plaquemine Mississippian | |||||||||||
| Caddoan Mississippian | |||||||||||
| Upper Mississippian cultures |
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