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<< Other Photo Pages >> McKees Rocks Mound - Artificial Mound in United States in Mid Atlantic

Submitted by AKFisher on Wednesday, 02 August 2023  Page Views: 172

Multi-periodSite Name: McKees Rocks Mound Alternative Name: McKees Rocks Indian Mound
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 125.62 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Mid Atlantic Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: McKees Rocks, PA
Latitude: 40.472220N  Longitude: 80.05013W
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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McKees Rocks Mound
McKees Rocks Mound submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). 1896 photo of McKees Rocks Mound in Pennsylvania. It is Adena Era (ca. 500 BC) and considered to have been the largest mound in the state. It was completely excavated. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in Mid Atlantic

From Wikipedia:
"McKees Rocks History:
For thousands of years, Native Americans inhabited the region. The Adena culture built a large earthwork mound here, which was a burial site. It was augmented in later years by members of the Hopewell culture. This was the largest such mound in the state.[3] The Carnegie Museum of Natural History excavated half the mound in 1896. Its archaeologists traced the construction history and unearthed the remains of 33 people. The mound crowned a high bluff that overlooks Chartiers Creek and the Ohio River. The bluff under the mound was quarried for municipal paving some time after the archaeological dig, eliminating what remained of the Indian burial site. This site was considered by George Washington as a possible location for Fort Pitt, which he eventually ordered built on the site of the destroyed French Fort Duquesne in what is now Pittsburgh's Point State Park.[4]

Around 1749, the French-Canadian explorer Pierre Joseph Celoron de Blainville visited the area and discovered a "written rock" inscribed with markings he believed were made by Native Americans. Celeron named the place after the rock, and it eventually became known as McKees Rocks. Writing in 1918, historian John Boucher stated that the inscriptions had "long since faded away, if indeed they were anything other than marks made by English fur traders."[5]"

References:
1. ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
2. Census Population API". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved Oct 12, 2022.
3. Agreen, Bernadette Sulzer; Society, McKees Rocks Historical (2009). McKees Rocks and Stowe Township. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-6471-5.
4. Part I
5. Boucher, John N. (1918). Old and New Westmoreland, Volume 1. The American Historical Society, Inc. p. 9.

Further reading and information:
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKees_Rocks,_Pennsylvania
Religynz:
https://religyinz.pitt.edu/mckees-rocks-burial-mound/

Directions:
McKees Rocks, PA, in city limits via Robb St.
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McKees Rocks Mound
McKees Rocks Mound submitted by AKFisher : Historical marker on site. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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