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Wickliffe Mounds ( 15 BA 4) is a prehistoric, Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Ballard County, Kentucky, just outside the town of Wickliffe, about 3 miles (4.8 km) from the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Archaeological investigations have linked the site with others along the Ohio River in Illinois and ...
This is a list of the 135 National Register of Historic Places listings in Cook County, Illinois outside Chicago and Evanston. Separate lists are provided for the 62 listed properties and historic districts in Evanston and the more than 350 listed properties and districts in in Chicago .
The Kincaid Mounds Historic Site ( 11MX2-11; 11PO2-10) [3] c. 1050–1400 CE, [4] is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located at the southern tip of present-day U.S. state of Illinois, along the Ohio River. Kincaid Mounds has been notable for both its significant role in native North American prehistory and for the central role the ...
The Big Sink Rural Historic District, in Woodford County, Kentucky near Versailles, Kentucky, is a 5,000 acres (20 km 2) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The listing included Number of 180 contributing buildings, 33 contributing structures, and 44 contributing sites. [1]
This is a list of archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites . [ 1 ]
The Illinois River ( Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi[ 4]) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois, [ 5] the river has a drainage basin of 28,756.6 square miles (74,479 km 2 ). [ 6] The Illinois River begins with the confluence of the Des Plaines and ...
Mound Builders. Monks Mound, built c. 950–1100 CE and located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica. Many pre-Columbian cultures in North America were collectively termed " Mound Builders ", but the term has no formal meaning.
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