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Press photo/Mia Overton - Dr. Thomas Belt talks about Cherokee history at the Watauga Mounds (pictured below) as Joseph Owle and Brett Riggs listen. Staff members from the state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources visited the Cherokee mound sites in Macon County last week.
Traveling down Highway 28, just a few miles outside town, drivers may not even realize they are driving by a historic site dating back thousands of years. The Watauga Mounds offer not only a glimpse…