Mound City
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Mound City is the name of several places in the United States:
- Mound City, Illinois
- Mound City, Kansas
- Mound City Township, Kansas
- Mound City, Missouri
- Mound City, South Dakota
- Mound City National Cemetery
- Big Mound City
Other things known by the moniker Mound City:
- The Mound City was a named passenger train operated by the Illinois Terminal Railroad between St. Louis, Missouri and Peoria, Illinois.
- Hopewell Culture National Historical Park was formerly designated "Mound City Group National Monument."
- Mound City and Eastern Railway
- Saint Louis, Missouri was known as Mound City due to the presence of several ceremonial mounds similar to the nearby Cahokia Mounds. (The St. Louis mounds have long since disappeared, having been used as construction fill in the 19th century.)
- The Mound City Blue Blowers was a kazoo and banjo music group with several recordings in the 1930s.
- The USS Mound City was a gunboat used by the Union in the American Civil War.
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