Mounds State Park

Mounds State Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Circular "Great Mound" at Mounds State Park

Location:	Anderson, Indiana
Governing body:	Indiana DNR
NRHP Reference#:	73000022 ^[1]
Added to NRHP:	1973

Mounds State Park is a state park in Anderson, Indiana, featuring Native American heritage, and 10 ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture indigenous peoples of eastern North America, and also used centuries by later Hopewell culture inhabitants.

1 Mounds
2 Popular culture
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Mounds

The largest earthwork, the "Great Mound", is believed to have been constructed around 160 BCE. The Great Mound is a circular earth enclosure with an internal ditch and south to southwest entrance. The earthworks measure 394 feet (120 m) across from bank to bank. The 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) embankment is 63 feet (19 m) wide at its base, and the ditch is 10.5 feet (3.2 m) deep and 60 feet (18 m) across at its top. The central platform is 138 feet (42 m) across and was occupied by a 4-foot-high (1.2 m) central mound 30 feet (9.1 m) in diameter.

Popular culture

In 1900, a series of strange misshapen skeletons were unearthed from similar mounds in nearby Alexandria, Indiana. This brought thousands of tourists from around the Mid-West. In 1910, several locals admitted to stealing chimpanzee skeletons from the nearby Muncie Zoo's monkey house. In 1915 the skeletons were sold to a local museum which burned down in 1919.^[2]

Canoeing is also available in Mounds State Park, on the White River.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-08-31. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
^ Werner, Nicholas (1937). Mysterious Circumstances Of Central Indiana. Clayton Books. pp. 121. ISBN 0-9137327-0-9.

External links

Adena Culture

List of Adena culture sites · Woodland period · Mound builder (people) · List of archaeological periods (North America)

Ohio Sites	Adena Mound · Austin Brown Mound · Arledge Mounds I and II · Beam Farm · Clemmons Mound · Conrad Mound Archeological Site · Coon Hunters Mound · George Deffenbaugh Mound · Enon Mound · Fortner Mounds · Great Mound · Highbanks Metropolitan Park Mounds I and II · Hillside Haven Mound · Hodgen's Cemetery Mound · Horn Mound · Hurley Mound · Jackson Mound · Karshner Mound · Kinzer Mound · Luthor List Mound · Miamisburg Mound · Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound · Old Maid's Orchard Mound · Orators Mound · Carl Potter Mound · Reeves Mound · D.S. Rose Mound · Ross Trails Adena Circle · Short Woods Park Mound · Snead Mound · Spruce Run Earthworks · David Stitt Mound · Story Mound (Cincinnati) · Story Mound (Chillicothe) · Wolf Plains Group · Zaleski Mound Group

Kentucky Sites	Biggs Site · Gaitskill Mound · Mount Horeb Earthworks Complex · Round Hill Mound ·

West Virginia Sites	Criel Mound · Grave Creek Mound ·

Indiana Sites	Mounds State Park ·

Related topics · Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley · burial mound · Eastern Agricultural Complex · Hopewell tradition

Hopewellian peoples

Woodland period · List of Hopewell sites · Mound builder (people) · List of archaeological periods (North America)

Ohio Hopewell	Beam Farm · Benham Mound · Cary Village Site · Cedar-Bank Works · Dunns Pond Mound · Ellis Mounds · Ety Enclosure · Ety Habitation Site · Fort Ancient · Fortified Hill Works · Great Hopewell Road · High Banks Works · Hopeton Earthworks · Hopewell Culture National Historical Park · Indian Mound Cemetery · Keiter Mound · Marietta Earthworks · Moorehead Circle · Mound of Pipes · Nettle Lake Mound Group · Newark Earthworks · Oak Mounds · Perin Village Site · Portsmouth Earthworks · Seip Earthworks and Dill Mounds District · Shawnee Lookout · Tremper Mound and Works · Williamson Mound Archeological District

Crab Orchard culture	Mann Site · O'byams Fort site · Rockwell Mound

Goodall Focus	Goodall Site · Norton Mound Group

Havana Hopewell culture	Albany Mounds State Historic Site · Dickson Mounds · Mound House site · Naples Mound 8 · Rockwell Mound · Sinnissippi Mounds · Toolesboro Mound Group

Kansas City Hopewell	Cloverdale archaeological site · Renner Village Archeological Site · Trowbridge Archeological Site

Marksville culture	Crooks Mound · Grand Gulf Mound · Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site · Mott Archaeological Preserve

Miller culture	Bynum Mound and Village Site · Ingomar Mound · Miller Site · Pharr Mounds · Pinson Mounds

Point Peninsula Complex	Lewiston Mound · Serpent Mounds Park · LeVescounte Mounds

Swift Creek culture	Etowah Indian Mounds · Leake Mounds · Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park · Miner's Creek site, · Nacoochee Mound · Swift Creek mound site · Yearwood site

Other Hopewellian peoples	Armstrong culture · Copena culture · Fourche Maline culture · Laurel Complex · Saugeen Complex · Old Stone Fort (Tennessee)

Exotic trade items	Copper · Galena · Mica · Fresh water pearls · Obsidian · Pipestone · Sea shells

Related topics · Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley · Black drink · burial mound · Calumet (pipe) · Effigy mound · Hopewell pottery · Horned Serpent · Eastern Agricultural Complex · Underwater panther

Pre-Columbian North America

Archaeological cultures	North American pre-Columbian chronology – Adena – Alachua – Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) – Baytown – Belle Glade – Buttermilk Creek Complex – Caborn-Welborn – Calf Creek – Caloosahatchee – Clovis – Coles Creek – Deptford – Folsom – Fort Ancient – Fort Walton – Fremont – Glades – Glacial Kame – Hopewell (List of Hopewell sites) – Hohokam – Leon-Jefferson – Mississippian (List of Mississippian sites) – Mogollon – Monongahela – Old Cordilleran – Oneota – Paleo-Arctic – Paleo-Indians – Patayan – Plano – Plaquemine – Poverty Point – Prehistoric Southwest – Red Ocher – Santa Rosa-Swift Creek – St. Johns – Steed-Kisker – Tchefuncte – Tocobaga – Troyville

Archaeological sites	Angel Mounds – Bandelier National Monument – The Bluff Point Stoneworks – Cahokia – Chaco Canyon – Casa Grande – Coso Rock Art District – Eaker – Effigy Mounds National Monument – Etowah Indian Mounds – Eva – Folsom Site – Fort Ancient – Fort Center – Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument – Holly Bluff Site – Hopewell Culture National Historical Park – Kincaid Mounds – Kolomoki – Manitou Cliff Dwellings – Marksville – Meadowcroft Rockshelter – Mesa Verde – Moorehead Circle – Moundville – Mummy Cave – Nodena Site – Ocmulgee National Monument – Old Stone Fort – Parkin Park – Pinson Mounds – Portsmouth Earthworks – Poverty Point – Pueblo Bonito – Rock Eagle – Rock Hawk – Salmon Ruins – Serpent Mound – Spiro Mounds – SunWatch – Taos Pueblo – Toltec Mounds – Town Creek Indian Mound – Winterville

Miscellaneous	Ballgame – Black drink – Buhl woman – Calumet – Chunkey – Clovis point – Container Revolution – Eastern Agricultural Complex – Eden point – Effigy mound – Falcon dancer – Folsom point – Green Corn Ceremony – Horned Serpent – Kennewick man – Kiva – Metallurgy – Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing – Medicine wheel – Mound builders – N.A.G.P.R.A. – Norse colonization of the Americas – Piasa – Pueblo dwellings – Southeastern Ceremonial Complex – Three Sisters agriculture – Thunderbird – Underwater panther

Related: Genetic history · Indigenous Portal of North America · Pre-Columbian era

Protected Areas of Indiana

National Park Service	George Rogers Clark National Historical Park • Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore • Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

National Forests	Hoosier National Forest

National Wildlife Refuges	Big Oaks • Muscatatuck • Patoka River

National Natural Landmarks	Cowles Bog • Harrison Spring • Orangeville Rise • Pinhook Bog • Wesley Chapel Gulf

State Parks	Brown County • Chain O'Lakes • Charlestown • Clifty Falls • Falls of the Ohio • Fort Harrison • Harmonie • Indiana Dunes • Lincoln • McCormick's Creek • Mounds • O'Bannon Woods • Ouabache • Pokagon • Potato Creek • Prophetstown • Shades • Shakamak • Spring Mill • Summit Lake • Tippecanoe River • Turkey Run • Versailles • White River • Whitewater Memorial

State Forests and State Recreation Areas	Clark • Deam Lake • Ferdinand • Greene-Sullivan • Harrison-Crawford • Jackson-Washington • Martin • Morgan-Monroe • Owen-Putnam • Pike • Salamonie River • Selmier • Starve-Hollow • Yellowwood

National Historic Landmarks	See List of National Historic Landmarks in Indiana

National Register of Historic Places	See National Register of Historic Places listings in Indiana

Indiana Department of Natural Resources

Mounds State Park

Contents

Mounds

Popular culture

See also

References

External links