Location | Ball Ground, Georgia, Cherokee County, Georgia, United States |
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Region | Cherokee County, Georgia |
Coordinates | 34°19′10.49″N 84°20′31.56″W / 34.3195806°N 84.3421000°W |
History | |
Founded | 1100 CE |
Abandoned | early 1600s |
Periods | Late Etowah Phase (1100 to 1200 CE) |
Cultures | South Appalachian Mississippian culture |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 1938, 1940s, 2003–2004, |
Archaeologists | Robert Wauchope, Lewis H. Larson |
Long Swamp Site (9 CK 1) is a 4-acre (16,000 m2) archaeological site in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States, on the north shore of the Etowah River near St Rt 372. The site consists of a South Appalachian Mississippian culture village with a palisade and a platform mound.[1]