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Multi-periodSite Name: McKees Rocks Mound Alternative Name: McKees Rocks Indian MoundCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 105.465 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:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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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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