Here in Panama City, Florida, where Joe and I are staying for a few weeks, our address is on Mound Avenue. I figured that name must indicate the presence of an Indian mound in the area.
After a little research, we learned that there was, or had been, such a mound on the corner of Mound Avenue and 17th Street.
Until now, I thought that a native American mound was a place where people disposed of shells. It turns out that the name for a shell disposal heap is a midden; a mound is something that is built intentionally and used for sacred or ceremonial purposes.
This one is called a mound, so it must be the sacred kind.
When we got to the corner of Mound Avenue and 17th St., we saw this mound:
It doesn’t look like a sacred mound to me. It looks more like a pile of cement blocks.
Nearby was this conduit.
But at least we did see this in the neighborhood: