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Kincaid Mounds

Kincaid Mounds
Kincaid Mounds. / EarlRShumaker, Flickr / CC BY 2.0

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Remnants of a large city which was created and inhabited by the people of Mississippian culture which flourished around 1050 – 1400 AD. Here are at least 11 large mounds, the largest is 9 m high. This site has been inhabited for a much longer time, for millennia.

2.6 out of 10 stars 25.8%

GPS coordinates
37.08094 N 88.49268 W
Location, address
North America, United States, Illinois, on the border of Massac and Pope Counties, near Ohio River

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