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More than fifty different sites in Indiana are listed under this criterion, including both Native American and European sites, and two others were once listed but have been removed. [2] This list includes all properties in Indiana that qualify under this criterion.
National Historic Landmarks in Indiana represent Indiana's history from the Native American era to its early European settlers and motor racing. There are 44 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in the state, [1] which are located in 23 of its 92 counties. They illustrate the state's industrial and architectural heritage, as well as battles ...
This is a list of Adena culture sites. The Adena culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that started during the latter end of the early Woodland Period (1000 to 200 BCE ) . The Adena culture existed from 500 BC into the First Century CE [ 1 ] and refers to what were probably a number of related Native American societies sharing a ...
Mounds State Park is a state park near Anderson, Madison County, Indiana featuring Native American heritage, and ten ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture indigenous peoples of eastern North America, and also used centuries later by Hopewell culture inhabitants.
Indiana placenames of Native American origin (4 P) K. Kickapoo (4 C, 12 P) M. Middle Mississippian culture (1 C, 68 P) Mounds in Indiana (4 P) P. Pontiac's War (3 C ...
Pigeon Roost State Historic Site is located between Scottsburg and Henryville, Indiana, United States. A one-lane road off U.S. Route 31 takes the visitor to the site of a village where Native Americans massacred 24 settlers shortly after the War of 1812 began.
The primary Native American languages in Indiana are Miami-Illinois and Potawatomi; the largest number of place names on this list are from these two languages. Some place names are derived from other native languages, such as Kickapoo, Shawnee, and the Delaware languages Munsee and Unami. These are all Algonquian languages.
Caborn-Welborn sites close to Ashworth. In 1945, the state legislature voted a substantial appropriation to the Indiana Historical Bureau.As the Corps of Engineers was considering the construction of a massive levee along Posey County's Ohio River shoreline for flood control purposes, Indiana archaeologists feared the destruction of many riverside sites, and the Historical Bureau accordingly ...