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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pere Marquette State Park - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by AKFisher on Sunday, 06 August 2023  Page Views: 99

Multi-periodSite Name: Pere Marquette State Park Alternative Name: Pere Marquette Mounds
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 33.159 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Grafton, IL
Latitude: 38.972890N  Longitude: 90.54286W
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
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3 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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Pere Marquette State Park
Pere Marquette State Park submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). Pere Marquette State Park near Grafton, Illinois has over 150 burial mounds as areas of ancient villages. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in Great Lakes Midwest

From Illinois DNR (.gov) site:

"The history of Pere Marquette State Park centers around that of the Illinois River. The forces that formed the river can be traced to ancient glaciers that pushed their way down over most of Illinois, but stopped just short of the park land. In the path of the glaciers and their meltwaters, a rich network of streams and rivers were formed, and tons of soil and bedrock were ground to dust which rose and blew up against the hillsides. These ancient layers of wind-blown soil, called loess (pronounced "less") can be seen along the roads and trails of Pere Marquette.

Gradual climate changes over thousands of years made the region an ideal environment for the prairie grasses and plants which eventually covered two-thirds of Illinois. Deciduous forest, dominated by oak and hickory, held their ground along rivers, streams and upland hills protected from prairie fires.

Throughout the hills, ravines and prairies, Native American people hunted game, gathered food and later made homes. Archaeologists describe six Native American cultures common to this region. Evidence of their presence has been found in the form of fragments of pottery, spear points and planting tools. Burial mounds also are distributed throughout the park, including one atop McAdams Peak.

When Europeans began to explore the Illinois country, most of the Native Americans they met were members of the Illini tribe. The first of these explorers, in 1673, was a group led by Louis Joliet, a cartographer, and Pere (Father) Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary. Marquette and Joliet, accompanied by French voyageurs, paddled down the Mississippi River in search of a passage to the Pacific Ocean. They encountered something on the Mississippi Bluffs which has become a local legend: "we saw…two painted monsters which at first made us afraid and upon which the boldest savages dare not long rest their eyes." They learned that the creature was part bird, with the face of a man, scales like a fish, horns like a deer and along black tail. The creature was called Piasa. A representation of the Piasa Bird is still maintained in paint on the bluffs about 20 miles from the park.

Learning from the Native Americans that the Mississippi River emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, Marquette and Joliet turned back, returning by way of the Illinois River and stopping near what now is Pere Marquette State Park. A large stone cross east of the park entrance commemorates their historic landing.

Generations later, local civic groups sought to preserve this land by the river as a state park. They raised money and were successful in persuading the state to match their funds for the purchase of the land in 1931. The newly created state park was to be called Piasa Bluffs, but by popular demand, it was renamed Pere Marquette State Park in honor of the adventurous French missionary."

Further reading and information:
DNR site
https://dnr.illinois.gov/parks/about/park.peremarquette.html
St. Louis Post Dispatch
https://graphics.stltoday.com/apps/hidden-gems/pere-marquette/

Directions:
In Grafton, IL city limits, 13112 Visitor Center Lane, Grafton, IL 62037.
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Pere Marquette State Park
Pere Marquette State Park submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). Another example of Hopewell Culture mounds on site.. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pere Marquette State Park
Pere Marquette State Park submitted by AKFisher : Example of Hopewell Culture mounds on site. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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