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Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota has an ancient history that it is bringing forth one canoe at a time. ... That dates it to 2,500 B.C. and makes it the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region ...
Archaeologists found the second canoe within 100 yards of where they found the first canoe. ... Lake Mendota is about 90 miles west of Milwaukee. 1,200-year-old canoe found in Wisconsin lake ...
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Merrill Springs Mound Group II is a group of Native American mounds at 5030-5046 Lake Mendota Drive in Madison, Wisconsin.The group includes six to eight mounds and a nearby village site; it originally included up to 13-20 mounds, but many were destroyed by residential development in the area.
Lake Mendota originated after the Wisconsin glaciation, which occurred approximately 15,000 years ago.Glacial ice, which had covered the Madison lakes (Lakes Mendota, Monona, Kegonsa, and Waubesa) [5] at a thickness of over 300 meters, began to retreat northwest about 14,000 years ago, damming a glacial lake near the City of Middleton that now serves as the source of water for Pheasant Branch ...
The Bernard-Hoover Boathouse was built in 1915 on the shore of Lake Mendota on the isthmus in Madison, Wisconsin.Today it sits in James Madison Park - the oldest standing boathouse on Lake Mendota, a remnant of an era when commercial boating thrived in the "city of the four lakes."
Second Lake Mendota canoe — 1000 BC [17] Dugout canoe United States (Lake Mendota) United States 14.5 ft (4.4 m) Ljubljana Marshes dugout canoe 9th century BC [18] Dugout canoe Slovenia: Slovenia 30.5 ft (9.3 m) Hasholme Logboat: 750–390 BC Logboat Prehistoric Britain United Kingdom 42.3 ft (12.9 m) Mazarrón I
On display in the R.A. Gray Building is a 700-year-old canoe that was discovered in Lake Munson in 2010. The dugout canoe found in Lake Munson in 2010 is now housed in the R.A. Gray Building in ...