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Moccasin Bend
Moccasin Bend is a national park that sits on the Tennessee River just below Lookout Mountain.

During the Paleo-Indian Period (10,000 B.C.-8000 B.C.), Moccasin Bend served as a home for indian tribes looking for land with plentiful resources. Moccasin Bend was also the site where Cherokee Indians were held while waiting to be sent off to Oklahoma on the "Trail of Tears." Moccasin Bend also played a huge part in the Civil War. It was the place that the Confederate soldiers were defeated in the battle against the Union

History
Moccasin Bend has been a vital area of archeological resources for thousands of years. American Indians used this land as a place for a home as long as 12,000 years ago. Moccasin Bend is also the site of parts of the Trail of Tears. In 1838, the Cherokee Indians were forced out of the area by the U.S. Government. During the Paleo-Indian Period (10500–8000 BC), Moccasin Bend served as a home for Paleo-Indians. "These people evidently had a highly mobile hunting and gathering way of life. The artifact markers for this period include a variety of fluted, semi- fluted, and un-fluted lanceolate projectile points. The Paleo-Indian period corresponds to the end of the Pleistocene Era." Moccasin Bend also played a major role in the Civil War.

Landscape
On February 20, 2003, Public Law 108-7 added approximately 780 acre of Moccasin Bend to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park as a new park unit. There are currently no public visitor facilities on this park unit.

Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute
Moccasin Bend is the site of the Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute. It is located on a private area of land on the Tennessee River. It was founded in 1961 by the Tennessee State Legislature. "Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute is a psychiatric hospital in Chattanooga, TN, with 150 beds. Survey data for the latest year available shows that the hospital had a total of 2,340 admissions." . They mainly provide services for people in need of psychiatric care.