Field Trips
game including Mastodons. Humankind first visited the area during the Paleo period (15,000 B.C. to 5000 B.C.), leaving behind Stone Age artifacts. Native Americans known as Mound Builders erected a mud-walled village just north of the springs around A.D. 1350.
The Mississippian culture was a mound- building Native American civilization archeologists date from approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, vary- ing regionally. It was com- posed of a series of urban settlements and satellite villages (suburbs) linked
together by a loose trading network. The civilization flourished from the southern shores of the Great Lakes in Western New York and Western Pennsylvania in what is now the Eastern Midwest, extending south-southwest into the lower Mississippi Valley and wrapping easterly around the southern foot of the Appalachians barrier range. The field trip will provide a tour of the site and discuss the archaeological significance.
The Wynnewood museum comprises a residence, inn and out-buildings built in 1828. The residence is the largest exist- ing log structure in Tennessee. The Wynnewood State Historic Site is a uniquely well preserved location that protects an area in Castalian Springs associated with the beginnings of colo- nization of the Old Southwest. It was a destination point for westward travelers from 1780-1830. The site exists today as a group of six original log buildings centered around the historic mineral springs. The Circa 1830 main house has functioned as a mineral springs resort, as a stagecoach rest stop, and was the operational center of the Wynne family farm for over 140 years.
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*All field trips begin and end at the Nashville Airport Marriott Hotel.
www.aipg.org Lookout Mountain and Raccoon Mountain
Date: Monday, September 25, 2017 Time: 7:00 am to 5:00 pm
Trip includes box lunch, snacks, water, transportation, rail- way tickets)
Leader: Rusty Sewell, MEM-2487, AIPG Advisory Board Representative
Field Trip attendees will travel from Nashville to Chattanooga via Interstate 24. Travel will begin in Ordovician carbonates of the Central Basin, cross Mississippian rock of the Highland Rim and cross Pennsylvanian sandstones before reaching Chattanooga at the eastern edge of the Cumberland Plateau.
Once in Chattanooga, field trip attendees will ride to the top of Lookout Mountain via the Incline Railway. The railway, constructed in 1895, climbs approximately 1,700 feet, consists of a mile of standard single track rail and at its extreme reaches an incline of 72.7%. At the top of Lookout Mountain, Point Park is located just a short walk from the Top Station. Point Park is part of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, and attendees will receive a tour of the park that includes information associated with the pivotal Battle Above the Clouds that gave Union troops control of Chattanooga in the fall of 1863. Additionally, the park tour will include three dimensional views of crossbeds and intraformational folds in the Pennsylvanian Warren Point Sandstone, as well as views of the Chattanooga Valley from the Ochs Observatory Museum where one can see the eastern edge of the Cumberland Plateau, the width of the Valley and Ridge, and the western edge of the Blue Ridge physiographic provinces.
After riding the incline railway back down to the valley floor, attendees will travel to the Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant. This plant is the Tennessee Valley Authority’s largest hydroelectric facility. The facility is comprised of a storage reservoir on top of Raccoon Mountain that was constructed in Pennsylvanian sandstone and shale. The power plant chamber and associated shafts connecting the reservoir to the Tennessee River were constructed in the heart of the mountain where the Mississippian Bangor Limestone provides structural stability. The area around the facility is a state-designated Wildlife Observation area that includes multiple vistas of the Tennessee River Gorge. The Tennessee River Gorge is the fourth largest river gorge in the eastern United States. The 26-mile gorge cuts through the Cumberland Plateau as the river winds its way into Alabama from Tennessee.
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