Georgia lawmakers reintroduce bill to establish Ocmulgee Mounds as Georgia’s First National Park & Preserve

March 26, 2025 Sightseers’ Delight News

People visiting the largest mound in Ocmulgee National Monument. (Photo courtesy National Park Service)

A group of federal lawmakers from Georgia have reintroduced their bipartisan legislation to establish the Peach State’s first National Park and Preserve.

U.S. Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, both D-Georgia, and U.S. Reps. Austin Scott, R-Georgia, and Sanford D. Bishop Jr., D-Georgia, introduced the bicameral Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve Establishment Act to establish the Ocmulgee Mounds as Georgia’s first National Park and Preserve.

The area is the ancestral home of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. It has been inhabited continuously by humans for over 12,000 years.

American Indians first arrived in the area during the Paleo-Indian Period, hunting Ice Age mammals. Around 900 CE, the Mississippian Period began. Muskogean people constructed mounds for meeting, living, burial, agricultural, and other purposes, many of which remain today and would be encompassed in the new U.S. National Park and Preserve.

Last November, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources passed the bipartisan, bicameral bill.

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