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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: December 9, 2007
Caption: The Mystery of the Mounds Marker
Additional Description: National Park Service Cancellation Stamp-1996 Regional Stamp-Effigy Mounds National Monument is located north of Marquette, Iowa along the Mississippi River. It contains superior examples of mounds constructed by the prehistoric Woodland Indians. Conical, linear and compound mounds, as well as effigy mounds in the shapes of birds and bears, are preserved. Stamp dated June 3, 1997, the date of the visit.
Submitted: December 19, 2012, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p229182
File Size: 0.113 Megabytes

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