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Submitted by AKFisher on Friday, 01 December 2023  Page Views: 149

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Wilson Mounds and Village Site Alternative Name: Marshall Ferry Cemetery Site
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 42.05 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Rising Sun, IL
Latitude: 37.999840N  Longitude: 88.03197W
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
3 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.
4 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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Wilson Mounds and Village Site
Wilson Mounds and Village Site submitted by AKFisher : Wilson Mounds & Village in Rising Sun, Illinois. There are 12 burial mounds and a Native American village site here dated to 400 BC - AD 400. The site was preserved when it became used as the Marshall Ferry Cemetery. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in Great Lakes Midwest

The Wilson Mounds and Village Site is a prehistoric archaeological site located in and around the Marshall Ferry Cemetery in Rising Sun, White County, Illinois. The site includes twelve Hopewell burial mounds and a village site.

History:
The site was inhabited by Hopewell peoples from approximately 400 B.C. to 400 A.D.

Excavations at the site began in the 1940s;[by whom?] the first formal investigations were conducted the following decade by the Illinois State Museum and the University of Chicago. The site was part of a trade network which spanned much of the eastern United States, as resources from as far away as North Carolina and the Lake Superior region have been found at the site. Two different skeletal types have been recovered from the site, indicating the presence of multiple cultures at the village. The site also includes a prehistoric cemetery in addition to burial mounds, suggesting that burials were organized based on social status.[2]

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1977.[1]

References:
1. National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Bodner, Connie. National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Wilson Mounds and Village Site. National Park Service, 1976-07.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Mounds_and_Village_Site.
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http://www.routeyou.com/en-us/location/view/51501559/wilson-mounds-and-village-site.

Directions:
Via County Rd 1930E and County Rd 830N, .3 mi.
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