1200-1400[1] Great prehistoric city grows and thrives on banks of
Warrior River, West-Central Alabama.
1500[1] City deserted.
1897 Town of Carthage, white settlement at site of deserted
city, renamed Moundville because of numerous Indian
mounds within its limits.
1905-1906 First archaeological excavations made at Moundville by
Clarence B. Moore of the Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Sciences.
1923 Moundville Historical Society organized to arouse
interest in preservation of mounds. Mrs. Jeff Powers,
Jr., President.
1929 Alabama Museum of Natural History begins
archaeological investigations at Moundville after
purchasing 175 acres which include most of the 40
mounds in that area.
1933 Mound State Park established with the aid of the
Federal Emergency Conservation Work Agency.
1935 Temporary museum building constructed at Mound State
Park.
1938-39 Alabama Museum purchases additional land, enlarging
Mound State Park to 301 acres which includes all the
mounds in the area.
1938 Mound State Park renamed Mound State Monument.
Civilian Conservation Corps, directed by National Park
Service and the Alabama Museum of Natural History,
begins large-scale development of area.
1939 May 10, New Archaeological Museum dedicated.
1947 September 24, Dedication of Laboratory Unit of Erskine
Ramsay Archaeological Research Center.
1949 Completion of Picnic Building: Memorial to Nelson
Jones.
[1]Approximate dates.