Oxford, Alabama Destroying A 1500-Year-Old Indian Mound To Build A Sam’s Club [LINK/Lead]

Posted by: weavercat on: February 2, 2010

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Oxford, Alabama Destroying A 1500-Year-Old Indian Mound To Build A Sam’s Club
After writing the post yesterday about how the city of Oxford is destroying a 1500-year-old Indian mound to use it as fill for the building of a Sam’s Club, I just had to go see it for myself.

It towers over the shopping center “Oxford Exchange”

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