Hemmingwood in Brentwood in Davidson County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)
Gordontown Mound Complex
Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, August 24, 2025
1. Gordontown Mound Complex Marker
Inscription.
Gordontown Mound Complex. . By AD 1375 this location was a thriving Native American town with one platform mound, one burial mound, and an 11-acre habitation area enclosed by a defensive wall. The site residents lived in square, single post structures with central hearths, interior support posts, and thatched roofs; and buried their dead in limestone slab coffins, commonly called "stone-box graves". As with other populations within the Middle Cumberland River valley during this time, these people were maize farmers who also hunted deer, bear, elk, and turkey. This site was part of a long distance trade network that included marine shell from the gulf coast and mica from the mountainous regions of East Tennessee and western North Carolina. , Dedicated in the Fall of 2010, Hemmingwood Homeowners Association
By AD 1375 this location was a thriving Native American town with one platform mound, one burial mound, and an 11-acre habitation area enclosed by a defensive wall. The site residents lived in square, single post structures with central hearths, interior support posts, and thatched roofs; and buried their dead in limestone slab coffins, commonly called "stone-box graves". As with other populations within the Middle Cumberland River valley during this time, these people were maize farmers who also hunted deer, bear, elk, and turkey. This site was part of a long distance trade network that included marine shell from the gulf coast and mica from the mountainous regions of East Tennessee and western North Carolina.
Location. 36° 2.674′ N, 86° 46.057′ W. Marker is in Brentwood, Tennessee, in Davidson County. It is in Hemmingwood. It is at the intersection of Hearthstone Lane and Bridlington Ln, on the right when traveling west on Hearthstone Lane. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 5509 Hearthstone Ln, Brentwood TN 37027, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Middle Tennessee and in Greater Nashville. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, August 24, 2025
2. Gordontown Mound Complex Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on September 14, 2025. It was originally submitted on September 13, 2025, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. This page has been viewed 97 times since then and 32 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on September 13, 2025, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.
