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Indian Mounds Regional Park is a public park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, featuring six burial mounds overlooking the Mississippi River.The oldest mounds were constructed about 2,500 years ago by local Indigenous people linked to the Archaic period, who may have been inspired by the burial style known as the Hopewell Tradition. [4]
Blue Mounds State Park was the scene of a murder May 20, 2001, when Carrie Nelson, then 20, was beaten to death while working alone in the park office. A coroner said the wounds to her head appeared as if she'd been struck with a rock. The killer apparently stole about $2,000 from the park coffers.
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Those entering Indian Mounds Park in St. Paul will now be informed upon arrival: "This is a cemetery." Signs explaining that the area is a burial site have been added to the park this year — a ...
Aug. 1—ANDERSON — For a group of bird watchers who set out along Trail 2 at Mounds State Park on Saturday morning, a planned two-hour hike through the woods wasn't so much about what they ...
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 ...
Aug. 26—ANDERSON — Volunteers at Mounds State Park in Anderson braved scorching heat and suffocating humidity Friday morning to produce a dugout canoe in the name of education. The remains of ...
Because the Westonka School District encompasses Mound, the city is also connected to Spring Park, Orono, St. Bonifacius, and Minnetrista. Mound schools include Grandview Middle School, Hilltop Primary School, Mound–Westonka High School, and Shirley Hills Elementary. The school mascot is the Whitehawk, which was changed from the Mohawk in 1997.