Eighth-grade MERIT students on Zulu Company recently traveled to Kolomoki Mounds State Park. Kolomoki Indian Mounds near Blakely is the oldest and largest Woodland Indian site in the southeastern United States.

Students toured the museum which includes an excavated burial mound and observed artifacts recovered from the site. Rangers demonstrated Native American weapons such as the blow gun, atlatl, and spear.

Students were also able to climb to the top of the 56-foot-high Great Mound, viewing the entire complex. The field trip correlated with their unit on the early Native American inhabitants of Georgia and the impact of European exploration and colonization on the indigenous people.