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Burial mound at the Sequoyah Museum in Vonore, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The mound contains 191 burials that were excavated in the Tellico Archaeological Project, 1969-1979. The burials were reinterred here in the Spring of 1986. The right half of the center plaque displays Timberlake's "Draught of the Cherokee Country"; the left half reads:

A PRINCIPAL PEOPLE

IN MEMORY OF THE CHEROKEE PEOPLE
WHO LIVED IN THE LITTLE TENNESSEE
VALLEY PRIOR TO THE INUNDATION
OF THE TELLICO RESERVOIR IN 1979.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
WERE CONDUCTED AT THE MAJOR
18TH CENTURY CHEROKEE SITES. THE
REMAINS OF 191 INDIVIDUALS
RECOVERED IN THOSE EXCAVATIONS

ARE BURIED IN THIS MOUND.
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