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given a reliable record of the food animals and a fairly complete list 
of all the sizes and shapes of their domestic pottery. 
Both of these sites, when partial excavations were completed, were 
accurately restored to their original shape, for the benefit of future 
explorers. The interesting altars, fire bowls, building postholes, and 
vestiges of domestic life were carefully preserved and again covered 
up so as to allow their future study. The citizens of Tennessee 
strongly urge that the Fewkes group be made a national monument. 
FERTILE REGION AROUND FEWKES GROUP 
The Fewkes group was in the midst of one of the most thickly 
settled ancient Indian regions in Tennessee. A large number of 
Indian villages and smaller settlements existed along both the Little 
Harpeth and the Big Harpeth Rivers in Williamson County. These 
two streams drain the most fertile portion of the blue-grass region of 
Tennessee. It attracted ancient man as well as modern man. 
Traces of Indian habitations are to be found around each of the many 
large bold springs for which this region is celebrated. 
There are signs of a small settlement of apparently only three or 
four houses around the bold spring 114 miles from Fewkes group up 
the Little Harpeth River. One mile farther upstream, at another 
big spring, on the Crocket farm, are traces of a considerable settle- 
ment and of a large stone cemetery. This cemetery has been de- 
stroyed by cultivation. 
One and one-half miles to the southwest of the Fewkes group, 
around a big spring, was another small village. Two miles down the 
Little Harpeth from Fewkes group is a village site and mound. 
Thus it continues all along the two Harpeth rivers in Williamson 
County. It is not probable that all of these sites were inhabited at 
the same time, but everything points to a large Indian population in 
this region. 
There are records of 29 ancient inhabited sites reported in Wil- 
liamson County. A careful survey of this county would reveal pos- 
sibly as many more small sites. Most of these sites appear to have 
belonged to a people like the last comers to Fewkes group, who buried 
in rectangular stone-slab coffins, with bodies on the back, extended 
full length. 
MOUND NO. 2 
Mound No. 2 is a low, oval mound on the west side of the town 
square. It measures 235 feet north and south across the top and 
160 feet east and west and is at present 714 feet high. 
Plate 125, a, shows a view of the Fewkes group taken from the hill- 
side to the west of the group. The laborers are standing on mound 
No. 2, which they are excavating. 
