Monday, April 18, 2011

Ocmulgee National Monument Lab

We had a beautiful day of strolling around and identifying trees and learning about the Ocmulgee National Monument for lab on Tuesday, April 12, 2011!

(The cross country team runs there half of our practices!!!)

We saw a turtle in a huge ditch that eroded away which was showing its soil history and tons of clay it had to offer.  This showed us the history of the land and layers in the soil, most likely from hundreds of years back.  Overall it was a beautiful day to walk around and see the history all around us left behind by Native Americans native to this area in Georgia.

Vicious turtle that we bothered

Dr. Rood playing with dirt in the ditch

View of Macon from top of Great Temple Mound
On the land of Ocmulgee National Monument, two Civil War battles were fought and the park plans on commemorating these battles in 2014.  It's our own little piece of history in Macon that makes us proud =)

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