Yahudah Washitaw ov East Terra

Washitaw muurs ov East Terra descendents ov the Ancient Mound Builders

Existence and Recognition

Throughout the world there are works of earth and stone known as mounds. From the deltas of the Mississippi to the coastal plains of East Terra/ eastern seaboard, including North Carolina, to as far east as Zimbabwe Africa to the Republic of China, these architectural task of antiquity are witnessed. Mounds dating more than 7,000 years old graze the Northern and Southern American continent; and descendants of these mound building civilizations are recognized as the earth’s oldest indigenous tribes by the United Nation’s Committee of Indigenous Peoples, such is the Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah Empire, United Nations Indigenous People number 215-93.

“We know that Indians once roamed this territory. When the first settlers from the Barbadoes came up the Cape Fear, they were there. These settlers called them the Cape Fear Indians, Waccamaw and Saponas.  The Waccamaws were a peaceful tribe, and when the whites began coming in, rather than have any unpleasantness, they are supposed to have voluntarily withdrawn and joined the Catawbas farther west, and some, at least, the Seminoles in Florida. It is said that the celebrated chief of the Seminoles, Osceola, was born on Waccamaw River, and tradition says that his father was one John Powell, a white man living there.” *1

“Wave after wave of colonists- ancient and modern- were engulfed in the vast recesses of Columbus before it earned the title.

Until about 1750, when a few settlers drifted in, it remained a neglected wilderness, but in 1764 the General Assembly authorized the building of roads from Belfont (present Elizabethtown in Bladen) to Marsh Castle (site of Whiteville) as well as others to Old Dock and Fair Bluff. The act creating the first road was probably engineered by General Hugh Waddell, a patriot officer, who owned Plantations at both Belfont and Marsh Castle. If he did, he demonstrated that the pressure to build roads to connect the property of politicians was known long before our day.

The Waccamaw Indians first occupied the land. When a 1734 traveler visited the site of a village on the shore of Lake Waccamaw he estimated it had been abandoned already for 50 years. This place is known today as Indian Mounds”.