Topp Scout
Booger Bottom Mounds
Chestatee is a Cherokee Indian village in northeastern Forsyth County, Georgia, United States, due west of where the Chestatee River runs into the Chattahoochee River, it was called Atsunsta Ti Yi. The word Chestatee is a Cherokee word meaning pine torch place or place of lights, because they would use bonfires along the riverbanks to light their torches. They would then use these torches for hunting deer and other wild game in the forest. The name Booger Bottom comes from white Gold Miners who found gold in this area durning the gold rush. In 1951 a survey was done for the Buford Dam project. During the survey a large Burial Mound was found The Summerour Mound. Three weeks were spent on an archaeological excavation of the mound, before it was flooded by Lake Lanier. The Mound was 250 feet long by 200 feet wide and was possibly the oldest Mound in the Southeastern United States. But this Indian Village and Mound called The Place Of Light is now at the bottom of Lake Lanier in a place of darkness. Booger Bottom.
Booger Bottom Mounds
Chestatee is a Cherokee Indian village in northeastern Forsyth County, Georgia, United States, due west of where the Chestatee River runs into the Chattahoochee River, it was called Atsunsta Ti Yi. The word Chestatee is a Cherokee word meaning pine torch place or place of lights, because they would use bonfires along the riverbanks to light their torches. They would then use these torches for hunting deer and other wild game in the forest. The name Booger Bottom comes from white Gold Miners who found gold in this area durning the gold rush. In 1951 a survey was done for the Buford Dam project. During the survey a large Burial Mound was found The Summerour Mound. Three weeks were spent on an archaeological excavation of the mound, before it was flooded by Lake Lanier. The Mound was 250 feet long by 200 feet wide and was possibly the oldest Mound in the Southeastern United States. But this Indian Village and Mound called The Place Of Light is now at the bottom of Lake Lanier in a place of darkness. Booger Bottom.