People have called the land near the Ocmulgee River in present-day central Georgia home for a long time; perhaps as many as 17;000 years; and each successive group has left its mark on the landscape. Mississippian-era people erected the towering Great Temple Mound and other large earthworks around 1;000 years ago. In the late 17th century; Ocmulgee flourished as a center of trade between the Creek Indians and their English neighbors. In the 19th century; railroads did irreparable damage to the site in the name of progress and profit; slicing through it twice. Preservation efforts bore fruit in the 1930s; when Ocmulgee National Monument was created. Since then; people from all over the world have visited Ocmulgee. They come for many reasons; but they invariably leave with a reverence for the place and the people who built it hundreds of years ago and those who have maintained it in recent decades.
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