Town Creek Indian Mound is a National Historic Landmark near Mount Gilead, Montgomery County, North Carolina, in the United States.[2] The site preserves a ceremonial mound built by the Pee Dee, a group of Mississippian mound building people that thrived in the Pee Dee region of North and South Carolina during the Pre Columbian era of American History (about 1100 AD - 1400 AD). The Pee Dee were part of a larger complex society of Native Americans, known as the Mississippian culture, that built mounds for their spiritual and political leaders. They also participated in a widespread network of trading that stretched from Georgia through South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and as well as the mountain and Piedmont regions of North Carolina. Town Creek Indian Mound is the only historic site in North Carolina that is dedicated to American Indian heritage, and is considered to be one of the recognized Mississippian chiefdoms. The site is composed of a single large platform mound with a surrounding village and palisade.