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The Indian Mounds Park "Airway" Beacon. Adjacent to the mounds is a 110-foot-high (34 m) airway beacon built in 1929 as part of a national network to aid pilots delivering airmail. [10] The Indian Mounds Park "Airway" Beacon, as it is officially known, helped mark the route between Saint Paul and Chicago.
A 1914 study found fifteen mounds on the southeastern side of Indian Lake and characterized this "remarkable" group of mounds as the premier location of archeology in Logan County. [3] Another four mounds in Washington Township, which were not included in the 1914 survey, are located on Lake Ridge Island, [ 4 ] a short distance to the north of ...
Map of mound locations. The site of the mounds is located between Indian Mounds Drive and Interstate 196 in Wyoming, Michigan near the Grand River. [3] [1] [7] The Norton Mounds site covers approximately 55 acres and is currently closed to the public. [5]
About 20,000 mounds were built in what is now Wisconsin from around 500 B.C. to around 1100 A.D. Only about 4,000 remain today because of the inconsideration of developers over the last 200 years.
A mound complex which includes mounds, a geometric enclosure and numerous habitation areas, it is the largest group of Middle Woodland mounds in the United States. The complex covers approximately 400 acres (1.6 km 2) and contains at least 30 mounds, 17 of which have been identified as being completely or partially constructed by prehistoric ...
Indian Mounds Park preserves some of the burial sites of an early group that came to the area more than a thousand years ago. [citation needed] Kaposia, a large Dakota Indian village, existed below Dayton's Bluff from the late seventeenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. Residents lived along the river and performed burial rites on the ...
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park: Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, formerly known as Mound City Group National Monument, is a United States national historical park with earthworks and burial mounds from the Hopewell culture, indigenous peoples who flourished from about 200 BCE to 500 CE. The park is composed of six separate ...
The Lewis Mound Group (47-Da-74) is a set of prehistoric Native American burial mounds in the village of McFarland, Dane County, Wisconsin, southeast of Madison. Created by late Woodland people overlooking the eastern shore of Lake Waubesa, they include a bear effigy, a hook-shaped mound, and some geometric shapes. They are visible from public ...