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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: July 12, 2011
Caption: Origins Marker -at the Indian Heritage Center
Additional Description: Some tell of ancestors who migrated here from the West. Others recall legendary homelands in the east. Most are probably descended from those who were here for 10,000 years. The very earliest people on this land gathered and hunted, but 2,000 years ago farming became their way of life. When the Europeans arrived here around 16000 A.D., they founded the native people were farming extensively, living in large towns, and engaged in a vigorous commerce that extended far beyond this Valley.
Submitted: October 11, 2011, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p176285
File Size: 2.583 Megabytes

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