The Tennessee Division of Archaeology

Tennessee Division of Archaeology

The Tennessee Division of Archaeology is a division of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation responsible for managing prehistoric archaeological sites on lands owned by the U.S...

 maintains a database of all archaeological sites recorded within the state of Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

. As of January 1, 2009 this catalog contains more than 22,000 sites, including both prehistoric and historic resources. In Tennessee, Prehistoric is generally defined as the time between the appearance of the first people in the region (c. 12,000 BC) and the arrival of the first European explorers (c. 1540 AD). The Historic period begins after the arrival of those Europeans and continues to the present. Both these periods are further divided into subperiods and phases using established archaeological conventions for the region.

The following list of archaeological sites in Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

encompasses sites that have either contributed substantially or have the potential to contribute substantially to research regarding people who have lived in what is now Tennessee. Note that a historical site is not necessarily an archaeological site. According to the Tennessee Division of Archaeology

Tennessee Division of Archaeology

The Tennessee Division of Archaeology is a division of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation responsible for managing prehistoric archaeological sites on lands owned by the U.S...

 Site Survey Record, official site numbers are generally assigned to historic sites only if artifacts

Artifact (archaeology)

An artifact or artefact is "something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest"...

 and/or historic documentation for that site support a pre–1933 date. Historical sites are included in the following list only if actual field work has been conducted at the site.

The term cultural affiliation refers to the archaeological period when a site was created and/or occupied. Many sites were occupied during more than one archaeological period, and are therefore known as multicomponent. An example of a multicomponent site would be American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 earthworks

Fortification

Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defence in warfare and military bases. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs...

 constructed at the same location as a prehistoric Mississippian

Mississippian culture

The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally....

 village. The cultural affiliation category in the list below refers only to periods in which the most significant occupation or event (e.g., a battle) took place at the site.

Archaeological sites recorded in Tennessee are assigned State Trinomials consisting of letter and number combinations that indicate the state and county where the site is found, and includes a sequential number identifying the specific site. For example, the trinomial 40DV11 designates the eleventh archaeological site recorded in Davidson County

Davidson County, Tennessee

Davidson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2010, the population was 626,681. Its county seat is Nashville.In 1963, the City of Nashville and the Davidson County government merged, so the county government is now known as the "Metropolitan Government of Nashville and...

 (DV) , Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

 (40) .

Legend for cultural affiliations:

• Paleoindian — roughly 12,000 BC (and possibly earlier) to 8000 BC
• Archaic — c. 8000 BC to 1000 BC
• Woodland
  Woodland period
  The Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures was from roughly 1000 BCE to 1000 CE in the eastern part of North America. The term "Woodland Period" was introduced in the 1930s as a generic header for prehistoric sites falling between the Archaic hunter-gatherers and the...
  
   — c. 1000 BC - 1000 AD
• Mississippian
  Mississippian culture
  The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally....
  
   — c. 900 to 1600
• Cherokee
  Cherokee
  The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family...
  
   — affiliated with proto-historic and historic Cherokee occupation (c. 1600-1800)
• British colonial
  British colonization of the Americas
  British colonization of the Americas began in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas...
  
   — affiliated with Euro-American expansion, pre-1776.
• American
  Culture of the United States
  The Culture of the United States is a Western culture originally influenced by European cultures. It has been developing since long before the United States became a country with its own unique social and cultural characteristics such as dialect, music, arts, social habits, cuisine, and folklore...
  
   — affiliated with Euro-American occupation or events post-1776

The sites are listed alphabetically by county.

Anderson County

Anderson County, Tennessee

Anderson County is a U.S. county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, its population is 75,129. Its county seat is Clinton.It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee, Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Bull Bluff Site	40AN20	Woodland, Mississippian	1960s
Clinton Site	40AN74	Woodland	1990s
Cox Site Cox Site The Cox Site is an Middle Fort Ancient culture archaeological site located in Woodford County, Kentucky, in the Bluegrass region of the state. The site is located on a large ridge and is approximately by , although there may be other unexplored sections to the north....		Mississippian	1934
Crawford Farm Mound	40AN21	Woodland	1930s
Freels Bend Site	40AN8	Woodland	1960s
Freels Cabin	40AN28	American pioneer	1977	DOE United States Department of Energy The United States Department of Energy is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material... -owned
Freels Farm Mounds	40AN22	Woodland	1930s
University of Tennessee Farm Site	40AN2		1960s

Benton County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Carson-Conn-Short Site	40BN190	Paleo-Indian	1990s
Eva Site Eva (archaeological site) The Eva site is a prehistoric Native American site in Benton County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Located along an ancient channel of the Tennessee River, the Eva site saw extensive periods of occupation during the Middle and Late Archaic period...	40BN12	Archaic	1940	Submerged

Blount County

Blount County, Tennessee

Blount County is a U.S. county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its population was 123,010 at the United States Census, 2010. The county seat is at Maryville, which is also the county's largest city....

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
	40BT47	Woodland, Mississippian	c. 1990
Apple Barn Site Townsend, Tennessee Townsend is a city in Blount County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The population was 244 at the 2000 census. Townsend is one of three "gateways" to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the home of several museums and attractions relating to both the natural and human...	40BT90	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian, Cherokee	1999–2001
Peter Cable Complex Cades Cove Cades Cove is an isolated valley located in the Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. The valley was home to numerous settlers before the formation of the national park...	40BT34	American pioneer		national park
Chestnut Flats	40BT133	Archaic, American pioneer		national park
Chilhowee Chilhowee (Cherokee town) Chilhowee was a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Blount County and Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States...	40BT7	Cherokee	1950s	Submerged
Gas Company Site Townsend, Tennessee Townsend is a city in Blount County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The population was 244 at the 2000 census. Townsend is one of three "gateways" to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the home of several museums and attractions relating to both the natural and human...	40BT94	Woodland	1999–2001
Gregory Cave	40BT141	Woodland, Mississippian		national park
Indian Grave Gap	40BT140			national park
Kinzel Springs Site Townsend, Tennessee Townsend is a city in Blount County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The population was 244 at the 2000 census. Townsend is one of three "gateways" to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the home of several museums and attractions relating to both the natural and human...	40BT89	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian, Cherokee	1999–2001
John Oliver Complex Cades Cove Cades Cove is an isolated valley located in the Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. The valley was home to numerous settlers before the formation of the national park...	40BT55	American pioneer	1980s	national park
Pony Ride Site Townsend, Tennessee Townsend is a city in Blount County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The population was 244 at the 2000 census. Townsend is one of three "gateways" to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the home of several museums and attractions relating to both the natural and human...	40BT91	Woodland, Mississippian, Cherokee, American	1999–2001
Sparks Bottom Site	40BT129	Archaic, Woodland		national park
Spence Field Spence Field Spence Field is a highland meadow in the Great Smoky Mountains, located inthe Southeastern United States. It has an elevation of 4,920 feet above sea level...	40BT138			national park
Tallassee Tallassee (Cherokee town) Tallassee is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Blount County and Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Tallassee was the southernmost of a string of Overhill Cherokee villages that spanned the lower Little Tennessee River in the 18th century...	40BT8	Cherokee	1950s	Submerged

Bradley County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Chatata Chatata Chatata is the original Cherokee Indian name of a populated area located in Bradley County, Tennessee. This area is close to an idyllic natural spring known as "Blue Hole Spring", which was considered sacred to the Cherokee located at Red Clay State Historical Park...
Ledford Island	40BY13	Mississippian	1930s
Rymer Site	40BY15	Mississippian

Campbell County

Campbell County, Tennessee

Campbell County is a U.S. county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2010, the population was 40,716. Its county seat is Jacksboro. The Census Bureau has identified the county as a Micropolitan Statistical Area, designated the LaFollette Micropolitan Statistical Area for the largest...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Bowman Farm Site	40CP2	Mississippian	1930s
Harris Farm Site	40CP9	Mississippian	1930s
Heatherly Stone Mounds	40CP1	Woodland	1930s
Irvin Village	40CP5	Mississippian	1930s
Saltpeter Cave	40CP3	Woodland	1930s

Cheatham County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Mound Bottom Mound Bottom Mound Bottom is a prehistoric Native American complex in Cheatham County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern United States. The complex, which consists of platform and burial mounds, a central plaza, and habitation areas, was built between 950 and 1300 AD, during the Mississippian period.The...	40CH8	Mississippian	1970s	state archaeological site
Pack Site Mound Bottom Mound Bottom is a prehistoric Native American complex in Cheatham County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern United States. The complex, which consists of platform and burial mounds, a central plaza, and habitation areas, was built between 950 and 1300 AD, during the Mississippian period.The...	40CH1	Mississippian	1930s
Patterson Forge	40CH87	American industry		state park

Chester County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Pierce Site	40CS24a	Paleo-Indian	1970s

Claiborne County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Ausmus Cave	40CE20	Mississippian	1930s
Cheek Site	40CE28	Archaic, Woodland
Doug Young Site	40CE56	Woodland
Essary Site	40CE40	Archaic
Tazewell Fortification	40CE109

Clay County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Stardust Sites I-III	40CY63-65	Archaic, Woodland	2001

Cocke County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Rankin Site	40CK6	Woodland	1960
Swaggerty Blockhouse Swaggerty Blockhouse The Swaggerty Blockhouse is a historic structure near Parrottsville, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The structure was originally believed to have been a frontier blockhouse built by early settler James Swaggerty in 1787...	40CK201	American pioneer/American agricultural	2001	private property

Coffee County

Coffee County, Tennessee

Coffee County is a county located in south-central portion of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is one of the counties of Middle Tennessee. As of 2010, the population was 52,796. Its county seat is Manchester....

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Cascade Distillery Site	40CF237	American industry
Old Stone Fort Old Stone Fort (Tennessee) The Old Stone Fort is a prehistoric Native American structure located in Coffee County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States. The structure was most likely built between 80 and 550 AD during the Middle Woodland period....	40CF1	Woodland	1966	state park

Davidson County

Davidson County, Tennessee

Davidson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2010, the population was 626,681. Its county seat is Nashville.In 1963, the City of Nashville and the Davidson County government merged, so the county government is now known as the "Metropolitan Government of Nashville and...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
East Nashville Mounds	40DV4	Mississippian	1868, 1992
French Lick	40DV5	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian	1821, 1860s, 1880s, 1992
Widemeier Site	40DV9	Paleo-Indian, Archaic
Traveller's Rest Travellers Rest (Tennessee) Travellers Rest is a historic plantation in Nashville, Tennessee.In 1799, the two story structure with four rooms was built by Judge John Overton . Overton was an advisor and close friend of Andrew Jackson, judge at the Superior Court of Tennessee and co-founder of Memphis, Tennessee...	40DV11	Mississippian
Archaeological Site No. 40DV35	40DV35	Mississippian
First American Cave, Regions Center (Nashville)	40DV40	Ice Age fauna, Woodland	1971
Brick Church Mound and Village Site Brick Church Mound and Village Site The Brick Church Mound and Village Site is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Nashville in Davidson County, Tennessee. It was excavated in the late nineteenth century by Frederic Ward Putnam...	40DV39	Mississippian	1877, 1969, 1971-2001	Destroyed for residential development
The Hermitage The Hermitage (Nashville, Tennessee) The Hermitage is a historical plantation and museum located in Davidson County, Tennessee, USA, east of downtown Nashville. The plantation was owned by Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, from 1804 until his death at the Hermitage in 1845. Jackson only lived at the property...	40DV100	American plantation		Museum
The Ensworth School The Ensworth School The Ensworth School is a private school located on two separate campuses in Nashville, Tennessee.The original school, with grades "pre-first" through eighth, opened in 1958 with 152 students. The school opened in a large Tudor-style home; its distinctive architecture became a symbol of the school...	40DV184	Paleoindian, Archaic, Mississippian	2003	Destroyed
Kelley's Battery	40DV392	Mississippian, American military
Drennon Site	40DV447	Archaic, Woodland
Hermitage Springs	40DV551	Archaic, Woodland

Fayette County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Lucky 7 Site	40FY436	Woodland

Giles County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Elk River Fortification	40GL54	American military
Johnson May Site	40GL85	Woodland
Parker's Pasture	40GL25	Mississippian

Greene County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Birdwell Site	40GN228	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian
Davy Crockett Birthplace Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park is a state park in Greene County, Tennessee. Situated along the Nolichucky River, the park consists of centered around the traditional birthplace of legendary Tennessee frontiersman, soldier, and politician Davy Crockett...	40GN12	Woodland, American pioneer	1977	state park
Neas Site	40GN229	Archaic, Woodland
Samuel Doak Plantation	40GN257	American pioneer

Hamilton County

Hamilton County, Tennessee

Hamilton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It was named for Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 310,935 . Its county seat is Chattanooga....

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Audubon Acres	40HA84	Mississippian
Citico	40HA65	Mississippian	1970s
Dallas Island	40HA1	Woodland, Mississippian	1930s	Submerged
David Davis Site	40HA301	Mississippian
Hampton Place Archaeological Site	40HA146	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian
Hixon Site	40HA3	Mississippian	1930s
LeCroy Site	40HA43	Mississippian	1940s, 1950s
MacLellan Island	40HA64	Archaic, Woodland
Mallards Dozen Archaeological Site	40HA147	Archaic, Woodland
Moccasin Bend Moccasin Bend Moccasin Bend Archaeological District is an archeological site in Tennessee that is included in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park....	40HA63	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian	1960s	Part of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, located in northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee, preserves the sites of two major battles of the American Civil War: the Battle of Chickamauga and the Chattanooga Campaign.-History:...
Vulcan Archaeological Site	40HA140	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian
Woodland Mound Archaeological District		Woodland

Hardeman County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Davis Bridge Battlefield Davis Bridge Battlefield Davis Bridge Battlefield was the site of the Battle of Hatchie's Bridge on October 5, 1862.As part of a long list of areas, the Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites, a area here was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991....	40HM106	American military

Hardin County

Hardin County, Tennessee

Hardin County is a county located in the U.S. State of Tennessee. As of 2010, the population was 26,026. The Hardin County seat is Savannah. The county was named posthumously for Col. Joseph Hardin, a Revolutionary War soldier and a legislative representative for the Province of North Carolina and...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Shiloh Battlefield Site Shiloh National Military Park Shiloh National Military Park preserves the American Civil War Shiloh and Corinth battlefields. The main section of the park is in the unincorporated town of Shiloh, about nine miles south of Savannah, Tennessee, with an additional area located in the city of Corinth, Mississippi, 23 miles ...	40HR179	American military		national military park
Shiloh Indian Mounds		Woodland, Mississippian		National historic landmark
Swallow Bluff Island Mounds Swallow Bluff Island Mounds The Swallow Bluff Island Mounds is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Saltillo on an island in the Tennessee River in Hardin County, Tennessee.-Site:...	40HR16	Mississippian		Private

Henderson County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Parker's Crossroads Battlefield	40HE118	American military

Henry County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Obion Mounds Obion Mounds Obion Mounds , also known as the Work Farm Site, is an archeological site of the Mississippian culture located north of Paris, Henry County, Tennessee, on the north fork of the Obion River. The site is the largest Mississippian site in western Tennessee and was probably inhabited by 1000 to 1100...	40HY14	Mississippian

Hickman County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Gordon Site		Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland
Mayberry Site	40HI133	Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland
Oldroy Site	40HI131	Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland

Humphreys County

Humphreys County, Tennessee

Humphreys County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 17,929. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 18,212. Its county seat is Waverly.-Geography:According to the U.S...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Fairchance Furnace	40HS168	American industry
Johnsonville Battlefield		American military		State park
Link Farm Site	40HS6	Mississippian
Nuckolls Site	40HS60	Paleo-Indian

Jackson County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Fort Blount Fort Blount Fort Blount was a frontier fort and federal outpost located along the Cumberland River in Jackson County, Tennessee, USA. Situated at the point where Avery's Trace crossed the river, the fort provided an important stopover for migrants and merchants travelling from the Knoxville area to the...	40JK125	American frontier, Middle Woodland	1989–1994
Austin Peay Bridge Site	40JK129	Archaic
Moore Bottom	40JK145	Archaic

Jefferson County

Jefferson County, Tennessee

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Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Strawberry Plains Fortification	40JE41-44	American military
Zimmerman's Island Chiaha Chiaha was a horticultural Native American chiefdom located in the lower French Broad River valley in modern East Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. They lived in raised structures within boundaries of several stable villages. These overlooked the fields of maize, beans, squash, and...	40JE2	Mississippian	1940s	Submerged

Johnson County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Lake Hole Cave	40JN159	Mississippian	1990s	national forest

Knox County

Knox County, Tennessee

Knox County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its 2007 population was estimated at 423,874 by the United States Census Bureau. Its county seat is Knoxville, as it has been since the creation of the county. The county is at the geographical center of the Great Valley of East Tennessee...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Marble Springs		American pioneer		state historic site
Montgomery Site	40KN39	Woodland
Post Oak Island	40KN23	Mississippian		Submerged
Ramsey House	40KN120	American plantation	1995	Museum
Sevierville Hill Site	40KN142	American military
U.T. Agriculture Farm Mound	40KN16	Woodland
William Blount Mansion		American pioneer		National Historic Landmark

Lake County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Cremaillere Line Fortification	40LK54	American military
Foxhole Site	40LK10	Mississippian

Lauderdale County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Fort Pillow Fort Pillow State Park Fort Pillow State Park is a state park in western Tennessee that preserves the American Civil War site of the Battle of Fort Pillow. The 1,642 acre Fort Pillow, located in Lauderdale County on the Chickasaw Bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, is rich in both historic and archaeological...	40LA50	American military		state park

Loudon County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Bacon Farm Site	40LD35	Archaic	1976
Bat Creek Site Bat Creek inscription The Bat Creek inscription is an inscription carved on a stone allegedly found in a Native American burial mound in Loudon County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in 1889...	40LD24	Mississippian	1975	Partially submerged
Bussell Island Bussell Island Bussell Island, formerly Lenoir Island, is an island located at the mouth of the Little Tennessee River near the U.S. city of Lenoir City, Tennessee. The island was inhabited by various Native American cultures for thousands of years before the arrival of early European explorers, and is currently...	40LD17	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian, Cherokee	1970s	Location of Tellico Dam Tellico Dam Tellico Dam is a dam built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in Loudon County, Tennessee on the Little Tennessee River just above the main stem of the Tennessee River. It impounds the Tellico Reservoir....
Iddins Site	40LD38	Archaic	1970s
Kimberly-Clark Site	40LD208	Mississippian	1989
Loudon Fortification	40LD211-212, etc.	American military
Morganton Morganton, Tennessee Morganton was a community once located in Loudon County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Although now submerged by Tellico Lake, during its heyday in the 19th century Morganton thrived as a flatboat port and regional business center...	40LD105	American river town	1978	Submerged
Tipton-Dixon House	40LD179	Woodland
Wear Bend Site	40LD107	Cherokee	1970s	Submerged

Madison County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Cochran Site	40MD23	Archaic, Woodland	1970s	Grouped with Pinson Mounds
Denmark Mound Group	40MD85	Mississippian
Johnston Mound Complex	40MD3	Woodland
Pinson Mounds	40MD1	Woodland	1960s, 1970s, 1980s	state archaeological park

McMinn County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Mouse Creek Site	40MN3	Woodland, Mississippian	1930s, 1980s

McNairy County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Big Hill Pond Fortification	40MY95	American military
Wray's Bluff Fortification	40MY111	American military

Meigs County

Meigs County, Tennessee

Meigs County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2010, the population was 11,753. Its county seat is Decatur.-History:Before 1819, the area that is now Meigs County was Cherokee territory. White settlers established ferries to cross the Tennessee River from Rhea County as...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Hiwassee Island	40MG31	Mississippian	1930s	state wildlife refuge

Monroe County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Bacon Bend Site	40MR25	Archaic, Woodland	1960s, 1970s	submerged
Calloway Island	40MR41	Archaic, Woodland	1970s	submerged
Chota Chota (Cherokee town) Chota is a historic Overhill Cherokee site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. For much of its history, Chota was the most important of the Overhill towns, serving as the de facto capital of the Cherokee people from the late 1740s until 1788...	40MR2	Cherokee	1960s, 1970s	submerged; monument in raised area
Citico Citico (Tellico archaeological site) Citico is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The site's namesake Cherokee village was the largest of the Overhill towns, housing an estimated population of 1,000 by the mid-18th century...	40MR7	Mississippian, Cherokee	1970s	submerged
Fort Loudoun Fort Loudoun (Tennessee) Fort Loudoun was a British colonial fort in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee, near the towns of the Overhill Cherokee. The fort was reconstructed during the Great Depression and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.-History:...	40MR1	English colonial military	1930s, 1970s	original site raised with fill; fort reconstructed
Great Tellico Great Tellico Great Tellico was a Cherokee town at the site of present-day Tellico Plains, Tennessee, where the Tellico River emerges from the Appalachian Mountains. Great Tellico was one of the largest Cherokee towns in the region, and had a sister town nearby named Chatuga. Its name in Cherokee is more... /Chatuga	40MR12	Cherokee
Halfway Town	40MR8	Cherokee	1970s	submerged
Harrison Branch	40MR21	Archaic, Woodland	1970s	submerged
Icehouse Bottom	40MR23	Archaic, Woodland	1970s	submerged
Martin Farm Site	40MR20	Mississippian	1960s, 1970s	submerged
Mialoquo Mialoquo Mialoquo is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The site saw significant periods of occupation during the Mississippian period and later as a Cherokee refugee village...	40MR3	Cherokee	1970s	submerged
Rose Island	40MR44	Archaic, Woodland	1970s	submerged
Starnes-Kahite	40MR32	Cherokee	1960s
Tanasi Tanasi Tanasi is a historic Overhill Cherokee village site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The village is best known as the namesake for the state of Tennessee...	40MR62	Cherokee	1960s, 1970s	submerged; marked by monument
Tellico Blockhouse Tellico Blockhouse The Tellico Blockhouse was an early American outpost located along the Little Tennessee River in Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee. Completed in 1794, the blockhouse operated until 1807 with the purpose of keeping the peace between nearby Overhill Cherokee towns and early Euro-American settlers in...	40MR50	American military	1970s	state park
Tomotley Tomotley Tomotley is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Occupied as early as the Archaic period, the Tomotley site had the most substantial periods of habitation during the Mississippian period, likely when the earthwork mounds...	40MR5	Cherokee	1970s	submerged
Toqua Toqua (Tennessee) Toqua is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States. Along with the Overhill Cherokee village for which the site was named, Toqua was home to a substantial pre-Cherokee town that thrived during the Mississippian period...	40MR6	Mississippian, Cherokee	1970s	submerged
Tuskegee Tuskegee, Tennessee Tuskegee was an Overhill Cherokee village originally on the bank of the Little Tennessee River at the mouth of the Tellico River. Today the site lies under the artificial lake, Tellico Reservoir, created by Tellico Dam....	40MR24, 40MR64	Cherokee	1960s, 1970s	submerged
Virginia Fort	40MR71	English colonial military	1970s

Montgomery County

Montgomery County, Tennessee

Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The county seat is Clarksville. The population was 172,331 at the 2010 census. It is one of the four counties included in the Clarksville, TN–KY Metropolitan Statistical Area....

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Dunbar Cave	40MT43	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian		state park
Fort Defiance/Fort Bruce	40MT287	American military

Morgan County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Prison Hill Site	40MO161	Woodland, Mississippian		part of Brushy Mountain prison complex

Pickett County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Huddleston-Little Cabin	40PT38	American pioneer
Smyrna Schoolhouse	40PT39	American pioneer

Polk County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Ocoee	40PK1	Woodland, Mississippian, Cherokee	1930s
Hiwassee Old Town Great Hiwassee Great Hiwassee was an important Overhill Cherokee town from the late 17th through the early 19th centuries. It was located on the Hiwassee River in present-day Polk County, Tennessee, on the north bank of the river where modern U.S. Route 411 crosses the river...	40PK3	Woodland, Mississippian, Cherokee	1980s

Rhea County

Rhea County, Tennessee

Rhea County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 28,400. Its county seat is Dayton.-Geography:According to the U.S...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Hiwassee Garrison Site	40RH35	American pioneer

Roane County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Davis-Noe Site	40RE137	Mississippian
Fort Southwest Point Fort Southwest Point Fort Southwest Point was a federal frontier outpost at what is now Kingston, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Constructed in 1797 and garrisoned by federal soldiers until 1811, the fort served as a major point of interaction between the Cherokee and the United States government as...	40RE119	American military	1970s, 1980s	museum
Red Velvet Spider Rockshelter	40RE243	Woodland

Rutherford County

Rutherford County, Tennessee

Rutherford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, it is the state's fifth-largest county by population with 262,604 people, an increase of 44.3 percent over the 2000 population of 182,023. Its county seat is Murfreesboro, which is also the geographic...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Stones River Battlefield	40RD177	American military		National battlefield
Sam Davis Home	40RD23	American plantation

Sevier County

Sevier County, Tennessee

Sevier County is a county of the state of Tennessee, United States. Its population was 71,170 at the 2000 United States Census. It is included in the Sevierville, Tennessee, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette, TN Combined Statistical Area. The...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Lawson Home Site	40SV51
McCroskey Island	40SV43	Mississippian	1980s
McMahan Indian Mounds	40SV1	Mississippian	1980s

Shelby County

Shelby County, Tennessee

Shelby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the state's largest both in terms of population and geographic area, with a population of 927,644 at the 2010 census...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Chucalissa	40SY1	Mississippian		state park
Hilderbrand House	40SY615	American plantation

Smith County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Battery Knob Earthworks	40SH134	American military
Beasley Mounds Site Beasley Mounds Site The Beasley Mounds Site is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located at the confluence of Dixon Creek and the Cumberland River near the unincorporated community of Dixon Springs in Smith County, Tennessee. The site was first excavated by amateur archaeologists in the 1890s...	40SM43	Mississippian culture	1895

Sumner County

Sumner County, Tennessee

Sumner County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 130,449. Its county seat is Gallatin, but its largest town is Hendersonville...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Bledsoe's Station Bledsoe's Station Bledsoe's Station was an 18th-century frontier fort located in what is now Castalian Springs, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The fort was built by long hunter and Sumner County pioneer Isaac Bledsoe in the early 1780s to protect Upper Cumberland settlers and migrants from hostile...	40SU32	American pioneer	1990s	Public park
Camp Trousdale Site Camp Trousdale Site Camp Trousdale, in Portland, Sumner County, Tennessee, was an early staging and training area for Tennessee Confederate units during the American Civil War, used from June through November 1861...	40SU107	American military
Castalian Springs Castalian Springs Mound Site The Castalian Springs Mound Site is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located near the small unincorporated community of Castalian Springs in Sumner County, Tennessee. The site was first excavated in the 1890s and again as recently as the 2005 to 2011 archaeological field school led by...	40SU14	Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian
Rutherford-Kizer Mound Group	40SU15	Mississippian
Wynnewood Wynnewood (Tennessee) Wynnewood State Historic Area, also known as Castalian Springs, and located in Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tennessee, includes the largest existing log structure in Tennessee. It is a National Historic Landmark....	40SU75			state historic site

Tipton County

Tipton County, Tennessee

Tipton County is a county located on the western end of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 51,271. Its county seat is Covington. Tipton County is part of the Memphis, TN–MS–AR Metropolitan Statistical Area, centered on Shelby County, which borders Tipton on...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Island 35 Mastodon Island 35 Mastodon The Island 35 Mastodon was discovered on Island No. 35 of the Mississippi River in Tipton County, Tennessee, United States.In 1900, a Pleistocene mastodon skeleton was excavated approximately 3 mi east of Reverie, Tennessee and 4 mi southeast of Wilson, Arkansas...	40TP84	Pleistocene Faunal	1900	Destroyed

Van Buren County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Big Bone Cave Big Bone Cave Big Bone Cave is a cave located in Van Buren County, Tennessee in the community of Bone Cave. It is notable both for its history and current recreational use. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a State Natural Area managed by Rock Island State Park . It is named for...	40VB103	Woodland, American

Warren County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Cardwell Mountain	40WR15	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian
Myers Mound	40WR5	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian

Washington County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Plum Grove Archaeological Site Plum Grove Archaeological Site The Plum Grove Archaeological Site is a multi-component archaeological site in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee. Located near the town of Jonesborough, it encompasses approximately of land governed by the United States Forest Service...	40WG17	Woodland, Mississippian

White County

White County, Tennessee

White County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 23,102. Its county seat is Sparta.-History:...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Cherry Creek Mound	40WH65	Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian
Indian Cave	40WH43	Woodland, Mississippian
Officer Cave	40WH98		1980s

Williamson County

Williamson County, Tennessee

Williamson County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2010 US Census, the population was 183,182. The County's seat is Franklin, and it is part of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is named after Hugh Williamson, a...

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Anderson Site	40WM9	Archaic
Brentwood Library Site Brentwood Library Site The Brentwood Library Site , also known as the Jarman Farm Site, is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located in the city of Brentwood, in Williamson County, Tennessee...	40WM210	Mississippian
Carnton Carnton Carnton is a historic plantation house and museum in Franklin in Williamson County, Tennessee. Carnton is the setting for the novel The Widow of the South, by author Robert Hicks...	40WM32	American plantation		national historic landmark
Coats-Hines Site Coats-Hines Site The Coats-Hines Site is an archaeological site located in Williamson County, Tennessee in the Southeastern United States. The site is significant in that it is one of only a very few sites in Eastern North America that contains direct evidence of Paleoindian hunting of late Pleistocene proboscideans...	40WM31	Paleo-Indian	1995
Fewkes Group Archaeological Site Fewkes Group Archaeological Site Fewkes Group Archaeological Site , also known as the Boiling Springs Site, is a prehistoric Native American archaeological site located in the city of Brentwood, in Williamson County, Tennessee. It is in Primm Historic Park on the grounds of Boiling Spring Academy, a historic schoolhouse...	40WM1	Mississippian	1920, 1998	NHRP
Harpeth Furnace	40WM83	American industry
Kellytown	40WM10	Mississippian
Old Town Archaeological Site	40WM2	Mississippian		NHRP
Roper Knob Fortifications	40WM101	American military
Triune Fortification	40WM106	American military

Wilson County

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Sellars Indian Mound Sellars Indian Mound Sellars Indian Mound is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Wilson County, Tennessee near Lebanon. The mound was the site of a settlement from about 1000 to 1300 CE. Today, the site is a satellite unit of Long Hunter State Park...	40WI1	Mississippian		Managed by Long Hunter State Park Long Hunter State Park Long Hunter State Park is a state park in Davidson County and Rutherford County, Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States. The park is mostly situated along the eastern shores of Percy Priest Lake, an artificial lake created by an impoundment of the Stones River.Long Hunter State Park...

Location not publicized

Site	Designation	Cultural affiliation(s)	Year(s) excavated	Status
Mud Glyph Cave		Mississippian	1980s

Resources

• Frank H. McClung Museum
• The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
• Tennessee Archaeology: A Synthesis
• Tennessee Archaeology Network
• Southeastern Archaeological Center Outline of Prehistory and History