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- Conjoined mounds are rare if not unique among Middle Woodland mounds in the Illinois River Valley. These mounds are among more than a dozen burial mounds found in and nearby Havana. To the best of our knowledge, these mounds have not been excavated. The Twin mounds were a landmark to French voyageurs, mostly French-Canadian boatmen transporting furs by canoe. In Read more...
- Mound building involved excavating earth and transporting it a basket load at a time. It has been estimated that there are more than 1,700,000 basket loads of earth in the Rockwell mound. The mound is probably a cemetery, one of many burial mounds found in and nearby Havana. Based on similarities in artifacts from mounds and villages along the Illinois Read more...
- The Ogden-Fettie Mound is one of many large groups of Middle Woodland mounds in the Illinois River valley. It is one of a handful of Native American burial mounds that remain where once there were 35 or more arranged in a huge crescent. Standing 15 feet tall, the mound was made from earth gathering by Native American hands and transported Read more...
- Two of the mounds were in the right-of-way of a Route 29 realignment. Both were excavated in 1940 by the Illinois State Museum and the University of Chicago. The remains of several adults and children were found in a log tomb located at the center of one of the mounds. Among the artifacts found in the tomb were flint blades, Read more...
