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Photographer: Unknown
Taken: 1896
Caption: Initial excavation of McKees Rocks Mound
Additional Description: McKees Rocks Mound, the largest mound built in Pennsylvania by Native Americans, was located about four miles south of Pittsburgh, at the confluence of Chartiers Creek and the Ohio River. Before its excavation in 1896 by Frank M. Gerrodette of the Carnegie Museum, the mound was 85 feet in diameter and 16 feet high. Today only a remnant of the original mound survives. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh.
Submitted: July 26, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p164137
File Size: 0.164 Megabytes

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