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The Emerald Mound and Village Site (Emerald Site) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located northwest of the junction of Emerald Mound Grange and Midgley Neiss Roads in St. Clair County, Illinois. The site includes five mounds, two of which have been destroyed by modern activity, and the remains of a village.
Emerald Mound was constructed during 1250 and 1600 CE, and is the type site for the Emerald Phase (1500 - 1680) of the Plaquemine culture Natchez Bluffs chronology.It was used as a ceremonial center for a population who resided in outlying villages and hamlets, but takes its name from the historic Emerald Plantation that surrounded the mound in the 19th century.
Location of St. Clair County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Clair County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
[3] Landmark name Image Location County Culture Comments; 1: Albany Mounds Site: Albany: Albany Mounds Trail 4]: Whiteside: Middle Woodland: Hopewell: 2: Alton Military Prison Site: Alton: inside the block bounded by Broadway and William, 4th, and Mill Sts. 5]: Madison: Euro-American: 3: Apple River Fort Site: Elizabeth: 0.25 miles east-southeast of the junction of Myrtle and Illinois Sts. 6 ...
The Emerald Mound, a historic site in the township. ... Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,538 and it contained 2,005 housing units. [2]
This category is meant for all National Register properties and districts in Illinois that qualified under Criterion D, locations "that have yielded or may be likely to yield, information important in history or prehistory".
Monks Mound, built c. 950–1100 CE and located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica. Many pre-Columbian cultures in North America were collectively termed "Mound Builders", but the term has no formal meaning
Emerald Mound and Village Site; G. Golden Eagle-Toppmeyer Site; H. ... Mound City, Illinois; Mound House (Greene County, Illinois) N. Naples Mound 8; O. Ogden-Fettie ...