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Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)

Former UST Site Reused as Greenspace and Access to Ancient Ceremonial Nikwasi Mound in North Carolina

Read about a former underground storage tank site fronting on the Little Tennessee River in Franklin, North Carolina that is now reused as an attractive greenspace with parking and Main Street access to the Nikwasi Mound.  This ancient Mississippian period ceremonial mound was at one time the center of the Cherokee Town of Nikwasi.      

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