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When the World Came Crashing Down: 16th Century Spanish Expeditions in the Southeastern U.S.

  • Tennessee Aquarium IMAX Theater 201 Chestnut Street Chattanooga, TN 37402 (map)

James Langford, President of Etowah Museum, Inc. will share his fascinating personal research journey that began in 1969 when as a high school student, he found and recorded 16th Century villages along the Coosawattee River in his home county in Northwest Georgia. Over many years, his work evolved to collaborations with several universities and to published research that provides key evidence confirming the location of the capitol core villages of Coosa – the largest and most powerful province north of Mexico encountered by Spanish expeditions of the 16th Century.

Visit our Moccasin Bend Lecture Series page for more information and to register for this and the other installments of our 17th annual series.

Earlier Event: September 8
National Treasures: Party at Point Park
Later Event: September 17
Chickamauga Battlefield bike ride