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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Sugarloaf Mound, Missouri Alternative Name: Sugar Loaf Mound
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 5.578 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Plains Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Saint Louis, MO
Latitude: 38.574900N  Longitude: 90.231W
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
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2 Ambience:
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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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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bat400 visited on 1st Jun 2009 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 It's easy to view this mound from Ohio street.

Sugarloaf Mound, Missouri
Sugarloaf Mound, Missouri submitted by AKFisher : "Sugar Loaf Mound" in St. Louis, Missouri, the only remaining mound of what was a huge mound complex along the Mississippi River in what is today downtown St. Louis. [Wiki: Teeks99] Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Sugarloaf is the last remnant of the Saint Louis earthen mounds. It was one of the southern most mounds in the area and lies on a ridge directly above the Mississippi River's west side, and south of the modern city's original center.

Sugarloaf has been drastically reduced in size from two homes built directly on the mound and a major highway having clipped the side of the original structure. No focused excavation has ever been made, and even the age of the mound is unknown.
Saint Louis's nickname, Mound City, came from a large Mississippian era mound complex, dating to the same era as the larger Cahokia city and mound complex (1050 - 1200 AD). These mounds on the west side of the river were destroyed over the years to make way for city of Saint Louis - most of the structures were used for fill dirt. Sugarloaf, an out lier that may not have been directly associated with the Mississippian complex, may date from the earlier Woodland era.
The mound is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Note: Osage Tribe interested in buying Last Ancient Mound in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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Re: Sugarloaf Mound, Missouri by AKFisher on Sunday, 06 August 2023
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Wikipedia link for Sugarloaf Mound:
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Sugarloaf Mound Street View by bat400 on Friday, 09 April 2010
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Osage people claim link to Sugarloaf Mound by bat400 on Saturday, 04 July 2009
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Tribe interested in buying last mound in Mound City.

Many potential buyers have shown interest in the Sugarloaf Mound property since it went on the market. "It's mostly people interested in riverfront property," said Leigh Maibes of Circa Properties Inc., which has listed the property since November. "A lot of people don't even know that it's a mound."

However, the owners, Walter and Eileen Strosnider, prefer the buyer have an interest in preserving the 40-foot-high Indian mound at 4420 Ohio Ave. They could get their wish if the Osage Nation Congress votes to buy it.

The congress ended its session on June 3 without appropriating funding to purchase the property, but the tribe could still act to buy it. One potential buyer holds an exclusive option on purchasing the property until Aug. 5. Maibes could not disclose whether that party is the Osage Nation.

The Osage people believe their ancestors built the mounds in the St. Louis area, including those at Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville, Ill., said Andrea Hunter, director of the Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office in Pawhuska, Okla. They look to the oral traditions of their people for proof.

For more, including oral tradition of the Osage, see St. Louis' Suburban Journals.
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St. Louis' last remaining Indian mound is for sale, listed at $400,000 by bat400 on Monday, 10 November 2008
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With an outdated kitchen and living space that measures only about 900 square feet, the modest house at 4420 Ohio Street isn't your typical $400,000 listing. It's what lies beneath the home that excites lovers of St. Louis history, or, in this case, prehistory.

The house sits on Sugar Loaf Mound, the city's last remaining link with the native people who lived here centuries before 1764, when Auguste Chouteau and a band of Creoles landed at the river's edge.

There once were dozens of these earthen structures in St. Louis, but all save Sugar Loaf were cleared in the name of progress.

That's why people interested in the ancient Mississippians tend to look eastward, to the Metro East and Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, not to the Mount Pleasant neighborhood on the city's south side. But those in the know have long pointed out Sugar Loaf, which rises between Interstate 55 and the Mississippi River, about 4 miles south of the Arch.



Now, this last vestige of Mound City — the 19th century nickname for St. Louis — is for sale for the first time in nearly 50 years.

"There must be people who have been watching this house — or, this mound — for a long time," said Leigh Maibes. She is the real estate agent representing Walter and Eileen Strosnider, the property's elderly owners who have moved to California to be closer to relatives. "I got the first phone call literally four or five minutes after putting the sign in the yard," Maibes said.

The one-story house on top of Sugar Loaf mound dates to 1928. Maibes concedes that, just about anywhere else in south St. Louis, the house would sell for a fraction of its listed price. Then again, when's the last time a house atop an Indian mound came on the market?

"One of the reasons that price tag is on it is to discourage people who would want to (demolish) the mound," Maibes said, noting that the owner wants a buyer who will act as a custodian for the site. (The mound, but not the house, was listed in 1984 on the National Register of Historic Places. That designation doesn't prohibit an owner from damaging or even destroying the mound.)

Sugar Loaf was named by early settlers for its lumpish shape. Originally, it likely had a more defined and terraced shape. The property for sale doesn't include the entire mound, and there's another house on a lower tier.

John Kelly, an archaeology professor at Washington University, said scientists and historians aren't sure what to make of Sugar Loaf Mound, which has never been the site of an extensive excavation.
Kelly said he suspects that the mound is about 2,000 years old, dating to the Middle Woodland Period, which lasted from about 1000 B.C. to 1000 A.D. But, the archaeologist said, without a serious excavation there's no way to know for sure.

For more, including a photograph, see Saint Louis Today.
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