Indian Burial Ground, Randolph, Alabama

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August 2000


Many thanks to Dianne Herren, Randolph County Historian and surveyor of the 
following cemetery. On August 27, 2000 she gave her permission for their 
submission to the archives.  


INDIAN BURIAL GROUND
Township 20, Range 11, Section 12

Before this Indian Burial Ground of twenty-five (25) or more Indian mounds was destroyed, 
it rested just across from where the Willingham Branch meets the Wedowee Creek. Nearby in 
the almost semi-circularbend of the Wedowee Creek stood a busy Indian village. There were 
some remains of this burial ground for many years, but piece by piece with the passing of 
time the graves were vandalized, destroyed, and finally leveled. We were shown its exact 
location by the elderly gentleman who has owned and farmed land nearby for almost fifty 
years. Re states that when he first began living here the signs of the village were still 
noticeable and many of the burial mounds rested in their sacred spot. Over the years he has 
watched it slowly vanish. He told me that the only thing left to remind you of the exact 
locations of the tents in the village could be seen when the corn planted in the field there 
now is about waist high or higher. If you get up on  the hill and look down on the corn, there 
will be spots where the corn is always taller and always greener.  Those fertile spots are the 
spots which were occupied by the Indians' tents and fires... the remains of which have created 
the more fertile spots. According to him when the fields surrounding this site were first plowed 
and planted, it was common to find arrowheads, pieces of pottery, etc. Unfortunately, very few 
of the farmers were interested in these finds and made little or no effort to preserve any of 
these pieces of history.

Twenty-five (25) or more unmarked graves
Site was visited and data compiled on March 7, 1993.