No: 2362
Access Public
Visible Yes
Name Old Stone Fort State Archaeological ParkType 1 Place Ancient
Type 2 Park State
Location ManchesterRegion TN
Country USA
Phone Web www.tn.gov/environment/parks/OldStoneFort/
Video Month Rate Medium
Plan N
Done N
Comments The Old Stone Fort is a 2000 year-old American Indian ceremonial site. It consists of mounds and walls that combine with cliffs and rivers to form an enclosure measuring 1-1/4 miles around. The 50-acre hilltop enclosure mound site is believed to have served as a central ceremonial gathering place for some 500 years. It has been identified as, perhaps, the most spectacularly sited sacred area of its period in the United States and the largest and most complex hilltop enclosure in the south. Settlers tended to name such enclosures “forts.”