Steve Bower

2 months ago | loveexploring.com | David McNew |Herb Roe |Steve Bower |Sean Pavone

Built in the 14th century by the ancestors of today’s Muscogee Creek people, Dyar Mound now lies beneath Lake Oconee, a reservoir created by a dam in the 1970s. Excavations at the time led archaeologists to believe that Dyar Mound had been abandoned shortly after a 1539–1543 expedition led by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, which had brought diseases that decimated the local population.