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This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Missouri, in the United States ... Kansas City Hopewell (4 P) M. Mounds in Missouri (6 P) P.
The Murphy Mound Archeological Site , is a prehistoric archaeological site in the Bootheel region of the U.S. state of Missouri. Located southwest of Caruthersville in Pemiscot County, Missouri [2]: 302 the site was occupied by peoples of the Late Mississippian period, centuries before European colonization of the area. [3]
Pages in category "Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
[2] [3] The NHLs are distributed across fifteen of Missouri's 114 counties and one independent city, with a concentration of fifteen landmarks in the state's only independent city, St. Louis. The National Park Service (NPS), a branch of the U.S. Department of the Interior, administers the National Historic Landmark program. The NPS is ...
Location City or town Description 1: Bates County Courthouse: Bates County Courthouse: June 28, 2001 : 1 North Delaware: Butler: 2: Hudson City School: Hudson City School: October 10, 2002 : Approx. 1 mile NW of MO 52 and Hwy. W
The Campbell Archeological Site (), is an archaeological site in Southeastern Missouri occupied by the Late Mississippian Period Nodena phase from 1350 to 1541 CE. The site features a large platform mound and village area, as well as several cemeteries.
The site, known as Gumbo Point (Chapman 1959b:1–3), would certainly have given the tribe better access to Fort Orleans and, after the fort was abandoned, to traders ascending the Missouri River. France ceded Louisiana to Spain in November 1762, but it was five years later before a Spanish expedition reached St. Louis (Foley 1989:31–32).
One of the city's best-known earthen structures, "Big Mound" was razed in the mid-1800s following a sale of the land to the North Missouri Railroad. [5] In preparation for the 1904 World's Fair, an additional sixteen mounds were destroyed. [2] The mounds in Forest Park were mapped and excavated and had human remains associated with them.