T.O. Fuller State Park outside of Memphis, TN is one of
those small state parks but it really packs a big punch. Located just seven
miles from the famous Beale Street it is a great base camp to head down into
the city to enjoy the great food and music the city has to offer. The sites are spacious and paved, bathrooms
and showers are clean. The camp hosts
were great folks and have been the camp hosts there for several years.
The camp hosts have
been there so long because the husband was an archeologist for the state of TN
for 30 years. His job involved working for and preserving a little known site
that occupies a corner of this state park, The Chicalissa (Chickasaw for
abandoned place) Indian Mounds.
For $5 you can tour
the museum and the mounds. If however you are camping at the state park you get
free tickets to the museum. We took full advantage whenever we get free
stuff. The site is maintained by the
University of Memphis, TN and is very well preserved and maintained, with
efforts to inform and educate the public. For being a very small and little
known Native American Museum it packs allot about the story of the Chickasaw
people.
I highly recommend a
visit to this museum. We took about 2
hours out of our day and could have stayed longer but we had to get on the road
to out next adventure, the Ozark National Scenic River in Missouri.
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