Twelve Millennia: Archaeology of the Upper Mississippi River Valley

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Selected Archaeological Sites and Museums in the Upper Mississippi River Valley Goodhue County Historical Society, Red Wing, Minnesota. Exhibit of local archaeology. Winona County Historical Society, Winona, Minnesota. Replica of La Moille Rockshelter and petroglyph rock art. Fountain City Area Historical Society, Fountain City. Exhibit of extensive local collection of prehistoric artifacts with identification key. Perrot State Park near Trempealeau. Site of early historic Perrot(?)/Linctot post, conical and effigy mounds, and nature shelter exhibits on local archaeology (including replica of destroyed rock art panel). Nicholls Mound and interpretive signs. Located 2.5 miles southeast of Trempealeau along the Great River Bike Trail. Riverside Museum, La Crosse. Exhibits on prehistoric and historic lifeways along the Upper Mississippi River. Myrick Park at La Crosse. Small effigy and conical mounds. Riverside Cemetery, 1.5 miles north of Genoa. Nine remaining conical mounds from extensive group mapped by Increase Lapham in 1852, now with historic graves and headstones. a p p e n d i x c . p l a c e s t o v i s i t Battle at Bad Axe, 2 miles north of De Soto, and 1 mile south of Victory along Wisconsin ’s Great River Road (Highway 35). Signs along the highway facing Battle Bluff and Battle Hollow and markers near and in Black Hawk Recreation Area (county road BI [for Battle Island]). Fish Farm Mounds, 4 miles south of New Albin, Iowa. Well-preserved Middle and Late Woodland conical mounds. Effigy Mounds National Monument, located 3 miles north of Marquette, Iowa. Museum display of artifacts plus walking tours of effigy and conical mounds. Villa Louis and Fort Crawford I, on “the island” at Prairie du Chien. Villa Louis is a mansion home established by fur trade magnate Hercules Dousman. The house rests upon a knoll that may have been an enormous American Indian mound and was initially used for the site of Fort Shelby (American) and Fort McKay (British) early in the War of 1812. The first Fort Crawford was constructed adjacent to the knoll following that war and was used until a Second Fort Crawford was constructed on the mainland beginning in 1829. Wyalasing State Park located near Bagley, overlooking the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers. Effigy mounds easily visible. Nelson Dewey State Park above Cassville. Easily accessible and visible conical, linear , and chain mounds. Selected Historic Sites in the Upper Mississippi River Valley Perrot(?)/Linctot Post (1685–1686[?] and 1730–1731) in Perrot State Park near Trempealeau. Fort St. Antione (1686–1698) wayside and historical marker along the Great River Road (Highway 35), east side of Lake Pepin in Pepin County. Fort Folle Avoine Historic Park (1802–1803), a trading post near Webster. 1832 Black Hawk Trail (Crawford and Vernon Counties), culminating at the Bad Axe Battle Site near Victory. Signs and historical markers, including along the Great River Road (Highway 35). Villa Louis and First Fort Crawford and Second Fort Crawford Hospital Museum (1814–ca. 1880), Prairie du Chien. State Historical Society of Wisconsin historic site and local museum. Fort Snelling (nineteenth-century military garrison), St. Paul, Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society Historic site. Steamboat War Eagle (1870) artifact exhibit at the Riverside Museum, La Crosse. 230 | a p p e n d i x c Selected Sites in the Upper Midwest Silver Mound site, located 2.5 miles northeast of Hixton, off Highway 95. This stone quarry site is the source of Hixton silicified sandstone. Pipestone National Monument, Pipestone, Minnesota. The source area and quarry of catlinite. Isle Royale National Park and the Keewenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan. The source for most of the copper used for artifact manufacture in Wisconsin. An ancient quarry pit may be seen on Isle Royale. Cahokia Mounds State Park, Collinsville, Illinois. A center of the Mississippian culture. Located at this site are an excellent museum and Monks Mound, the largest pre-Columbian earthen mound north of Mexico. Aztalan State Park, near Lake Mills. Located on the Crawfish River, a branch of the Rock River, this is a Mississippian settlement from A.D. 1000 to 1100 from the Cahokia area positioned in the heart of effigy mound country. Roche-a-Cri State Park, near Friendship. The only publically accessible and interpreted rock art site in Wisconsin. Includes numerous petroglyphs and some red pictographs. Natural Bridge State Park near Baraboo. The location of the Raddatz...