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Missouri An important archaeological site near St. Joseph, Missouri. It is located at the mouth of a small valley that opens into the Missouri River. It was occupied by Kansas City Hopewell (ca. 100 to 500 CE) peoples and later by Mississippian-influenced Steed-Kisker peoples (ca. 1200 CE). Because of the many Cahokia-style projectile points ...
The park covers 2,200 acres (890 ha), or about 3.5 square miles (9 km 2), and contains about 80 manmade mounds, but the ancient city was much larger. At its apex around 1100 CE, the city covered about 6 square miles (16 km 2 ), included about 120 earthworks in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and functions, and had a population of between 15,000 ...
Location City or town Description 1: Central Cole Camp Historic District: April 11, 2002 : Roughly consists of the 100 blocks of E. and W. Main St., most of Maple St., 105 E. Butterfield, 106 N. Olive, and 107 N. Boonville
[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 ...
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.
Construction of the Ha Ha Tonka castle was started in 1905 by Robert McClure Snyder Sr., a Kansas City businessman who purchased the large property after first visiting there in 1903. Alluding to the natural springs on the property, "ha ha tonka" was said to mean "big laugh" or "smiling waters." [7] Looking up at the Ha Ha Tonka ruins
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.