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The Mount Vernon Site, also known as the GE Mound, is a Hopewell site near Mount Vernon in southwest Indiana. The site was discovered and mostly destroyed in 1988 during road construction at a General Electric plastic manufacturing facility.
Off Indian Mound Rd., southeast of Mount Vernon [7: Black Township: A Hopewell site featuring village areas, geometrical earthworks and mounds. 11: Mount Vernon Downtown Historic District: Mount Vernon Downtown Historic District
Black Township: atop a ridgeline about 100 metres (330 ft) south of County Road 850S, near the entrance to the Mount Vernon General Electric plant and southwest of Mount Vernon 37°54′48″N 87°56′24″W / 37.91333°N 87.94000°W / 37.91333; -87.94000 ( Mount Vernon
Each mound within the Mound City Group covered the remains of a charnel house. After the Hopewell people cremated the dead, they burned the charnel house. They constructed a mound over the remains. They also placed artifacts, such as copper figures, mica, arrowheads, shells and pipes in the mounds. Mount Vernon Site: Posey County, Indiana: 1 to ...
The Mann site is a Crab Orchard culture site located off Indian Mound Road in Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana. It was placed on the National Historic Register on October 1, 1974. [ 1 ] Exotic ceramics and other artifacts found at the site reflect contact with Ohio Hopewell people, in addition to more distant peoples in the Southeast of the ...
A Mount Vernon High School senior learned about an 1878 lynching. She pushed for her town to memorialize the people killed. Thanks to a student's work, Mount Vernon, Indiana, will mark spot of ...
Mount Vernon is a city in and the county seat of Posey County, Indiana, United States. [4] Located in the state's far southwestern corner, within 15 miles (24 km) of both the southernmost or westernmost points, it is the westernmost city in the state.
Mount Vernon Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana.The district encompasses 39 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 1 contributing structure, and 2 contributing objects in the central business district of Mount Vernon.