National Register of Historic Places

Icehouse Bottom Site

Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee
Listed
October 18, 1978
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
78002615

About this property

Icehouse Bottom is a prehistoric Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, located on the Little Tennessee River in the southeastern United States. Native Americans were using the site as a semi-permanent hunting camp as early as 7500 BC, making it one of the oldest-known habitation areas in Tennessee. Analysis of the site's Woodland period (1000 BC - 1000 AD) artifacts shows evidence of an extensive trade network that reached to indigenous peoples in Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio. This was later an area of known Cherokee settlements, the people encountered by Anglo-European settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries. Since 1979, the Icehouse Bottom site has been submerged by Tellico Lake, an impoundment of the Little Tennessee River created by the construction of Tellico Dam. Excavations were conducted at the site in the early 1970s prior to dam construction, in anticipation of inundation. Tellico Lake was developed by and is managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the shoreline immediately above the Icehouse Bottom site is part of the McGhee-Carson Unit of the Tellico Lake Wildlife Management Area, which is managed by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

Location

Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee

Categories

PREHISTORICSCIENCE
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Icehouse Bottom Site listed on the National Register?

Icehouse Bottom Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1978.

What type of historic resource is Icehouse Bottom Site?

Icehouse Bottom Site is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

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