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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Dunleith Mounds Alternative Name: Gramercy Park, Dunleith Mound Group
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 25.146 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: East Dubuque, IL
Latitude: 42.494380N  Longitude: 90.64431W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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2Not Good
1Awful
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 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Dunleith Mounds
Dunleith Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). Hopewell Mounds at the Dunleith Mound Complex in East Dubuque, Illinois. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Dunleith Mounds are located atop the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River and across the river from Dubuque, Iowa. Originally investigated by Col. P.W. Norris for the Smithsonian Institution during the latter half of the 19th Century, the mounds are believed to have been built by the Middle Woodland peoples around 2,000 years ago. In the late 19th century the Dunleith Mound Group consisted of 26 mounds. Today, only 20 mounds can be identified.

Before the Gramercy Park Foundation began its preservation efforts the mounds had become overgrown with trees and other vegetation. The mounds were inaccessible and it was impossible to walk amongst them. Because of the efforts of the foundation, visitors can now walk along newly constructed trails and learn about the site from recently installed wayside markers.

Further reading and information:
1. State of Illinois Department of Natural Resources:
https://dnr.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/dnr/naturalresources/cultural/documents/dunleithmounds.pdf (PDF file)
2. Smithsonian Institution:
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/91634/Burial%20Mounds%20of%20the%20Northern%20Sections.pdf (PDF file)

Directions: From Dubuque, IA via US-20E, 2.9 mi.

Note: More photos courtesy of Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks kindly uploaded by AKFisher
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Dunleith Mounds
Dunleith Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Gramercy Park, site of the Dunleith Mound Group in East Dubuque, Illinois. The 26 mounds at the site were excavated in 1857 and 1882 by a Smithsonian Field Agent. The mounds were made in 200-500 AD. 1. In Mound 16, eleven skeletons were found in a stone & log chamber seated in a circle. 2. In Mound 4 a skeleton 7-8 feet tall was excavated. 3. View of the expansive site. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Lit... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dunleith Mounds
Dunleith Mounds submitted by AKFisher : The "Dunleith Mounds" in Quincy Park in East Dubuque, Illinois. Famous because the excavations were featured in the earliest Bureau of Ethnology (Smithsonian) reports on mound excavations. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dunleith Mounds
Dunleith Mounds submitted by AKFisher : In 1857 & 1882 Col. PW Norris excavated the "Dunleith Mounds" in Quincy Park in East Dubuque, Illinois for the Smithsonian. Norris "excavated" 466 mounds during his career. In a stone tomb chamber of one excavated mound he found 11 individual skeletons seated in this arrangement. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dunleith Mounds
Dunleith Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Dunleith Mound #5. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dunleith Mounds
Dunleith Mounds submitted by AKFisher : In his late 1800s excavation of Mound #5 at the Dunleith Mounds in East Dubuque, Illinois, Col. Norris found a skeleton that was measured 7 to 8 feet in height. Photo is from the display at the mound. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dunleith Mounds
Dunleith Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Dunleith Mounds in Gramercy Park, East Dubuque, Illinois. There were over 25 Hopewell Culture mounds here, on a bluff high above the Mississippi River. The Smithsonian excavated several in the late 1880s. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).

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