Roebuck mound

The Roebuck mound was a prehistoric Indian mound near Roebuck Spring on what became George Roebuck's homestead and is now Roebuck-Hawkins Park.

Writer Mary Gordon Duffee described visiting the mound on her childhood travels between Tuscaloosa and Blount Springs in the 1850s: "Another well-known mound of the valley was on the Huntsville Road near Roebuck's. Square in shape, this large mound rose thirty feet out of a level field. The walls were sloping and the sides were covered with underbrush, while massive trees crowned the summit. I regret that I never climbed to the top to discover if the mound was solid or hollow."

References

• Gesner, William (1883) "Mounds, Workshops and Stone-Heaps in Jefferson County, Alabama". Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1881. Washington D. C.: The Smithsonian Institution
• Brown, Virginia Pounds and Jane Porter Nabers, eds. (1970) Mary Gordon Duffee's Sketches of Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press ISBN 081735011X