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An 855-foot stone wall sits on top of a Georgia mountain, and archaeologists still argue over who built it.
The Cherokee said it was already ancient. They blamed a people who could not see by day.
Fort Mountain rises 2,850 feet in the Blue Ridge foothills near Chatsworth, Georgia. A dry-stacked stone wall zigzags along its summit for 855 feet, with no mortar and no clear military purpose.
In 1797, naturalist Benjamin Smith Barton published an account from Georgia settler Colonel Leonard Marbury. Cherokee tradition held that when their ancestors reached these mountains, a moon-eyed people already lived there, a race said to be blind in daylight.
Geologist George Little examined the wall in 1879. Archaeologist Philip E. Smith surveyed it again in 1962 and traced it back nearly two thousand years. Who piled those stones, and why, is still not settled.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
The Grito de Dolores: Battle Cry of Mexican War of Independence (1810)
The revolutionary movements in the US and France did not go unnoticed in Mexico, which had been subjugated by Spain centuries earlier. When Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, many Mexicans saw an opportunity to claim their own freedom. In 1810, revolutionary priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla launched the Mexican War of Independence with his Grito de Dolores—"Cry of Dolores"—a call to freedom that roused the peasants to action and became their battle cry.

Birthdays
1875 James Cash Penney (J.C. Penney)
1924 Lauren Bacall
1925 BB King Bluesman
1926 Tommy Bond,Butch in the "Little Rascals"
1927 Peter Faulk,Columbo
1956 David Copperfield, magician
1958 Orel Hershiser
1959 Tim Raines HoF Left Fielder



Events
1620 The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England, with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World

1782 Great Seal of the United States of America is used for the first time

1810 Priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rings the church bells in Dolores, Mexico, issuing a call to arms known as the "Grito de Dolores" (Cry of Dolores), calling for the end of Spanish rule. Celebrated today as Mexican Independence Day.

1848 Slavery is abolished in all French territories

1858 First overland mail to California

1867 Ottawa Rough Riders and Senators play Canadian football game

1869 Golf's first recorded hole-in-one is scored by Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole in Scotland

1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of US Congress

1920 The "Wall Street bombing" occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143

1926 Hurricane in Florida and Alabama kills 372

1950 Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play their first NFL game, defeating the defending NFL Champion Philadelphia Eagles 35-10

1957 Los Angeles City Council approves a 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for the Dodgers

1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98 years old after a 70-year career that included his final coaching role as the kicking coach at Stockton Junior College

1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"

1993 "Frasier," starring Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce, premieres on NBC

1994 Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in the White House

1996 Courtroom reality show "Judge Judy" with Judge Judith Sheindlin premieres in the US

1997 Apple Computer Inc. names co-founder Steve Jobs as interim CEO

2015 A report published in "Nature" journal states 3 million people die each year from air pollution, more than from malaria and HIV/AIDS combined

2018 Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes sets an NFL record of 10 touchdowns in first 2 weeks of a season, torching Pittsburgh’s secondary with 6 TD passes; leads Chiefs to 42-37 victory on the road

2019 Study puts prices on the value of "thoughts and prayers", average Christian willing to pay US$4 for a prayer, average atheist would pay US$3 not to receive one, published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"

2019 Guantánamo Bay is the world's most expensive prison at US$13 million per prisoner, according to investigation by "The New York Times"

2021 Researchers announce the discovery of bone tools at Contrebandiers Cave in Morocco, dating between 120,000 and 90,000 years ago, as the earliest evidence of humans making clothes

Birthday
1730 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben  a Prussian and American military officer who served as Inspector General and a Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. His teachings and writings remain fundamental in military strategies and tactics even today, making his contributions to military arts invaluable.
1900 J. Willard Marriott, American entrepreneur and hotelier (founder of Marriott Corporation)
1923 Hank Williams, was one of America's first major country music stars and was instrumental in the genre's rise in popularity
1927 George Blanda
1928 Roddy McDowall
1931 Anne Bancroft
1945 Phil Jackson


Events
1683 Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the first to report the existence of bacteria

1916 World War I flying ace, the Red Baron of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France

1917 American baseball shortstop Honus Wagner retires at 43; Pirates retire his #33

1940 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain

1954 "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding is published by Faber and Faber in London

1956 Yankees clinch pennant number 22 with Mantle's 50th home run of the year

1967 British rock band "The Who" makes its US television debut, performing "My Generation" on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and detonating an unusually large amount of flash powder in Keith Moon's drum kit

1967 American rock band "The Doors" appear for the first and last time on "The Ed Sullivan Show" as singer Jim Morrison reneges on a promise to change a lyric, prompting producers to offer no further invitations

1972 TV comedy series "M*A*S*H", adapted from the movie, starring Alan Alda, Loretta Swit, Wayne Rogers, and McLean Stevenson, debuts on CBS in the US and runs for 11 years

1978 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David Accords, frameworks for peace in the Middle East and between Egypt and Israel

2018 50 girls treated in hospital in Kaya, Burkina Faso after illegal botched circumcisions

2018 Hurricane Florence causes 900 people to be rescued from flooding, with the death toll at 23, and the city of Wilmington isolated, officials announce

2019 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg tells US Congress "I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry.”

2020 More than 15,000 fires have caused widespread devastation in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands in 2020, according to its National Institute for Space Research

2024 Norway becomes the first country where electric cars outnumber petrol vehicles, aided by tax rebates

M*A*S*H premiered on September 17, 1972, bringing the unforgettable 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital to television.The landmark comedy-drama changed television history by blending dark humor with the heavy realities of war.

Show Facts
Alan Alda starred as the brilliant and sarcastic Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce.
The Korean War served as the backdrop, though the show used the conflict to subtly comment on the ongoing Vietnam War.
Eleven Seasons carried the series through 251 episodes until its historic finale in 1983.
The Series Finale drew a record-breaking 105.9 million viewers, making it one of the most-watched broadcasts in U.S. history.