Case file · Fairy lore
The spirit defenders of Nikwasi
Cherokee tradition tells that when invaders were overrunning Nikwasi town (now Franklin), the Nunnehi, the immortal spirit people, poured out of the mound and drove them away.
1900 CE · 35.18, -83.38 · status: legend
The account
The platform mound, built about AD 1000, still stands in Franklin; in 2019 the town transferred it to the Nikwasi Initiative, set up with the Eastern Band of Cherokee.