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Multi-periodSite Name: Fort Wayne Mound Site Alternative Name: Fort Wayne Mound
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 6.48 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Detroit, MI
Latitude: 42.299880N  Longitude: 83.09735W
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:
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4Good
3Ordinary
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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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5 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
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Artificial Mound in Great Lakes Midwest

The Fort Wayne mound site was a prehistoric burial mound located on the grounds of the Ordinance Department of the former Fort Wayne in Detroit, Michigan. It was one of a series of mounds in Detroit, including the Springwells Mound Group, the Carsten mound and the Great mound at the River Rouge. By the mid-20th century only the Fort Wayne mound was still standing. Today, the remains of the mound—located near Officers' Row—is fenced off to visitors.[1]

Chronology:
The Fort Wayne mound site reveals evidence of two Late Woodland cultural traditions, the Wayne and Western Basin. The Wayne Tradition is radiocarbon dated to A.D. 750 based on a sample taken from a burial with a Wayne Crosshatched vessel.[1]

A radiocarbon date of A.D. 1159 from a non-burial pit places the Western Basin occupation within the Springwells Phase (approx. A.D. 1100-1250).[1]

Therefore it appears the building of the Fort Wayne mound, and the time period of the cultures existing here, pre-dates the coming of the Europeans by almost 400 years. It has been suggested that the Detroit area was depopulated after the Wolf Phase (after A.D. 1250) and was a "no-man's land" until the Potawatomi and other tribal groups moved there in historic times.[7]

References:
1. Halsey, John R. (1968). "Part II: The Springwells Mound Group of Wayne County, Michigan". In Fitting, James E.; Halsey, John R.; Wobst, H. Martin (eds.). Contributions to Michigan Archaeology. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Anthropological Papers No. 32.
7. Greenman, Emerson F. (1958). "Prehistoric Detroit". The Michigan Archaeologist. 4 (4): 81–98.

Further reading and information:
1. Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Wayne_mound_site
2. James A. Fitting, John R. Halsey and H. Martin Wobst (1968), Contributions to Michigan Archeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Anthropological Papers No. 32
3. National Park Service (NPS)
https://www.nps.gov/places/fort-wayne-detroit.htm

Directions:
From downtown Detroit via W Fort St., 5.5 mi.
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Fort Wayne Mound Site submitted by AKFisher : Photo credit: Detroit Urbanism at Blogspot https://detroiturbanism.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-mound-builders.html (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Fort Wayne Mound Site submitted by AKFisher : Detroit, Mich.'s Historic Fort Wayne Mound. Photo credit: http://detroiturbanism.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-mound-builders.html (Vote or comment on this photo)

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