I haven't seen the museum yet, but i am dying to take a gander at it!... I've recently discovered numerous perfectly rounded hills, all of them are at the same height with couple slightly bigger. Im positive that they are mounds built by most likely the Caddo Indians, Coddan, Mississippian Culture, Kadohadoch, etc. Whatever you prefer. I have no idea what time frame they're from, at this moment, for an Archaeologist has agreed to view them in a gander few months. The Archaeologist & I both would like it to be sooner, however the mounds location at this time of year, is almost completely hidden by thick brush & green forest. Most the land around here was virgin timber until a few years ago they sadly began the logging! One area ,which they basically leved, is where i believe lies A lost or forgotten Confederate cemetery. Which in fact the 1864 Civil war battle of prarie deann came to its final end at Moscow Church just a few miles from my house. There could be some high ranking men like Steel or Marmaduke buried beside they're men in walking distance from my home!!! I know this cause my 80 yr old neighbor Ms Dorthy spoke to me about how they're family owned most of the propriety along the road back to the creek. She remembers stories from her elders about coming across graves of confederate soldiers in which they paid no mind to or gave no recognition for they were not long before then enslaved by those very men. Makes you wonder if it's lost for a good cause, as in they're day, they were very cruel, evil, & in humane ppl. ANYWAYS, once fall arrives and forests trees are naked, we'll be able to clearly see and observe the mounds. Hopefully no excavations will be necessary. Maybe one day Prescott, AR. Terre Rouge Creek will be recognized in History books as another former home of the...
Read moreDefinetly not worth the money we paid. I was unaware that the arrowheads were replicas as we were told they were real..... I almost wanted to ask for my money back for the "tour" it was a joke. The bathrooms were bigger than the museum!! The young guy was very sweet but the older lady with long hair was so rude! We told her it was our first time there and that we had found some stuff. She asked if it was from the field and asked if we were going to wash it at the station out front and I told her yes. Her exact words were... "No ma'am you are NOT going to wash those at my station out front there is a water hose on the side of the building for you to use".... How were we supposed to know that?? Why ask me if I'm going to use it if I can't use it? My teenager was helping me carry the metal detector, the bucket and our drinks. We had just planned on being inside long enough to put the metal detector back on the wall and there wasn't anyone inside the gift shop so he didn't put his mask on. When we got inside and they lady came from the back and started talking to us we were in there a little longer than we had planned. Yes he realizes he should have put his mask on there's no argument there.. But... When she was taking to me and realized he didn't have it on she turned around and looked at him and said "I need you to put your mask on". I work where we require them too and I'm a manager. But there is reason to be rude...
Read more$8.00 to visit a one-room museum, even if it did have some interesting artifacts. The other part of the self-guided "tour" was a bunch of deep holes in the ground with bones at the bottom, with a sign at each hole explaining what was down there. Plus, they had a field you could dig for arrowheads, for more money, of course. Or you could buy a bucket of dirt for $20 or $50, I think those were the prices, and you would be guaranteed to find a gem or a diamond, if I remember correctly. The most interesting part was the gift shop, which had some pretty cool things in it. The most fun was the standing Indian chief with a hole in it where you could put your head in it and have your picture taken, and that was free and outside. BTW, I took photos of the museum exhibits so I could look at them a little closer when i got home. And it really want a village as advertised, although at the last hole in the ground, there were posts stuck in the ground in the shape of what they imagined an Indian hut would have looked like, but there was no "skin" on it so you could see what it really looked look like, although the museum had a display of a "village" with a few of these tiny huts with coverings on them, so I guess that is what passes for the village so they don't get hit with false advertising. There were no Indians on site, at least live ones, just a young very white boy with a Southern accent, although he was a...
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