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By Don Morfe, September 2, 2008
Aztec Ruins National Monument Visitor Center
GEOGRAPHIC SORT WITH USA FIRST
| | Working from his house and publishing through the American Natural History Museum, Earl Morris intrigued the nation with his findings at Aztec Ruins.
In 1923 the site Morris had known since boyhood was preserved as a national monument . . . — — Map (db m71078) HM |
| | Through the collective recognition of the community of nations, expressed within the principles of the convention concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage Aztec Ruins National Monument has been designated an outlier . . . — — Map (db m71077) HM |
| | Named in honor of Major George Montague Wheeler (1832-1909) who for ten years led a party of surveyors and Naturalists collecting geologic, biologic, planimetric, and topographic data in New Mexico and six other southwestern states. — — Map (db m50743) HM |
| | The Cohoes Mastodont was discovered during the excavation for Harmony Mill #3 in 1866. The mill is sometimes referred to as the "Mastodon Mill" for this reason. When all the bones were recovered, they were kept at the Harmony Mills Office on . . . — — Map (db m41622) HM |
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First sighted Aug 18, 1926
hairy women of Klipnocky,
once young girls, inhabit
this forest, waiting for
their parents' return. — — Map (db m127569) HM |
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Childhood Home of Dr. Ruth Benedict. First Well – Known Woman Anthropologist. Author, Patterns of Culture
Gerorge E. Pataki, Governor — — Map (db m93278) HM |
| | Legendary lake monster lives
here. Over 300 sightings
reported since 1819. Up
to 200 feet long. NYS Law
protects this regional icon. — — Map (db m136671) HM |
| | Beautiful Indian maiden and her lover from opposing nation rests beneath this rock. When church bell rings, rock turns over, lovers appear. — — Map (db m129044) HM |
| | Near here, Job Hoisington gave his life when he held the enemy & allowed Hull's militia to escape Buffalo's burning. Dec. 30, 1813. — — Map (db m129080) HM |
| | These white marble pieces were excavated from this
site, and are remnants of the original Manufacturers
and Traders National Bank Building (later the Federal
Reserve Building). Once called "The Marble Temple"
the building sat at the intersection . . . — — Map (db m133553) HM |
| | The Sinking Ponds Site was home to Native Americans for thousands of years prior to the establishment of the Village of East Aurora by Euro-American settlers. Sinking Ponds is a Native American archeological site occupied repeatedly for thousands . . . — — Map (db m104153) HM |
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Promoted by Colonel S. Tooey
Appearing by moonlight in
canoe calling for help
Tales still shared today — — Map (db m129046) HM |
| | Nichols Pond Park, a Madison County park, consists of 45 acres of land. The park is open to the public year round from dawn to dusk, and provides opportunities for hiking, bird watching and other forms of outdoor recreation.
The pond located at . . . — — Map (db m144351) HM |
| | The area on which you are standing was an Oneida Indian village active as early as the mid to late 1400's. Directly in front of you is an area that was excavated in the 1950's. The excavation revealed evidence of a section of palisade wall . . . — — Map (db m144350) HM |
| | The Loomis Gang burned courthouse in 1864 to prevent their trial, but first cut fire hoses here. No culprit found. One of many tales involving gang. — — Map (db m145681) HM |
| | As Tom Dorsey cleared land his wagon load of huge rocks couldn't be moved by horses. A giant turtle surfaced and dragged wagon into the lake. — — Map (db m129043) HM |
| | An Iroquois group camped here around 1400 A.D. Ash beds excavated in 1912 yielded artifacts of bone, stone and pottery. County of Monroe, 1961. — — Map (db m77156) HM |
| | Native Americans have been visiting the site for nearly 5,000 years, drawn to this location by the rich resources of the Mohawk River and the Chuctanunda Creek North, and the animals and plants that flourished on their banks. The site was visited . . . — — Map (db m97442) HM |
| | Site of Mohawk Iroquois
village, 1635-1646 documented
by Dutch trader, H. Van Den Bogaert
and French Jesuit, Issac Jogues
1984 archaeological excavation — — Map (db m145087) HM |
| | Right: Archaeological Discovery
While excavating to build Imagination Playground, archeologists uncovered buried wharfs. Codswises Wharf, along John Street, was built between 1803 and 1807 by George Codwise Jr., a prominent New York merchant. . . . — — Map (db m134366) HM |
| | Beneath this site lie the remains of seven individuals believed to be early North American born colonists. The remains dated to the late Eighteenth to early Nineteenth Century were discovered approximately 100 feet Southwest of here during . . . — — Map (db m149134) HM |
| | George Gustav Heye
George Gustav Heye, founder in 1916 of the Museum of the American Indian and its director until 1956, was unique in both his enthusiasm and his broad interest in native life. His passion for collecting began in 1896, when he . . . — — Map (db m131247) HM |
| | No Gold? No Dinosaurs? No Long-Forgotten Tombs?
Instead, our backyard archaeological
dig found 97 Orchard Street's original toilet: an outdoor privy with multiple seats. Rather than a privy pit, this backyard outhouse had an underground 'vault' . . . — — Map (db m142886) HM |
| | Sharing the Circle
The approximately one million objects in the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) collection were amassed by George Gustav Heye (1874-1957). The collection spans the Western Hemisphere from the Arctic to Tiera del . . . — — Map (db m131245) HM |
| | The Archaeology of the Stadt Huys Block
The Excavation of the Stadt Huys Block
The first large scale archeological excavation in New York City was conducted on this block in 1979-80. The excavation yielded important cultural material from the . . . — — Map (db m127735) HM |
| | Right: Urban Archeology
Did you know that there are archeological sites right here in New York City? Pieces of our citys history are hidden under our feet beneath streets, parks, and parking lots.
Under this playground, archeologists found . . . — — Map (db m134446) HM |
| | Lower Landing
Archeological District
has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of America
The . . . — — Map (db m66332) HM |
| | Disinterred near this village on Oct. 16, 1869. Represented as a petrified prehistoric man, it was subsequently proved a hoax. — — Map (db m40055) HM |
| | Discovered here
October 16, 1869.
It was proved a hoax,
one of the greatest public
deceptions in American history. — — Map (db m40056) HM |
| | 1800s prank believed true. Engraved "Leo de L'N VI 1520" as memorial for 1500s explorer. Found 1820 near this site. 1894 hoax revealed. — — Map (db m129020) HM |
| | Along this route a woman in white searches for her groom. Both died on their wedding night in the early 1900s while driving the 13 curves. — — Map (db m129018) HM |
| | In early 1800s, Pumpkins were stolen or "hooked" from a visiting farmer's wagon and set on porches around hamlet as a prank. — — Map (db m157446) HM |
| | Black Rock School attacked by Brant's raiders, 1779. Girls spared as aprons marked with emblem signaling raiders not to harm them. — — Map (db m129078) HM |
| | Fishing For Food, Not Fun! For more than 800 years the opposite bank was the scene of bustling spring and summer activity by Native Americans. Fish were netted from Oak Orchard River, and processed over firepits and drying racks. The fish prepared . . . — — Map (db m82703) HM |
| | Lumberjack & folk hero whose
tall tales described exploits.
Among feats, used cedar trees
as stilts in 1850s to help
catch fish on Palmer Falls. — — Map (db m144969) HM |
| | Local lore states
mineral springs
found here used
by Native Americans
for medicinal purposes — — Map (db m144968) HM |
| | Just north of these gravel knolls is the basin of a postglacial lake. Here men of an Arctic type once lived and hunted — — Map (db m127351) HM |
| | Site of archaic Algonkian village. Its corn pits yet remains. Through this vale ran a great and ancient path, trod by many races. — — Map (db m130339) HM |
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A Fault And Displacement
of 1000 Feet in Earth's
Surface Rocks. Here, In
1669, The Mohawks Ambushed
Their Algonkian Invaders
— — Map (db m105175) HM |
| | One-half mile north is a burial place of the mound builders, once occupants of the Mohawk Valley — — Map (db m129705) HM |
| | In 1877, Charles A. Codman met Indian spirit in form of an owl. His kind act toward the spirit is why the Hermitage of the Red Owl. — — Map (db m143385) HM |
| | 1769-1847
Author of First History of Long Island
His Home Stood on this Site
Until 1881 — — Map (db m148189) HM |
| | E. Bassford Hawkins and
Ivar Okvist collected over
5000 arrowheads & artifacts
in Lk. Ronk, 1893-1988.
Rest Well Gentlemen. — — Map (db m147181) HM |
| | Lake Ronkonkoma was once home to four Native American tribes known as the Nissequogues, Setaukets, Secatogues, and Unkechaugs. The term "Ronkonkomack" is translated according to the Algonquin language "Boundary Fishing Place" which is understood as . . . — — Map (db m126947) HM |
| | According to local legend, Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin set milestones in 1755 that mark the Post Road from here to Riverhead — — Map (db m129079) HM |
| | Archaeological excavations in the Fort Edward region have shown that Native Americans have lived here for at least 8,000 years, and probably as long as 11,000-12,000 years. The Hudson River, as well as several lakes and streams in the area supplied . . . — — Map (db m134456) HM |
| | Believed to have been underground railroad safe house ca 1846. Original owners Elizabeth and John Preston were known abolitionists. — — Map (db m129077) HM |
| | For no known reason from 1883 to 1889 he trod a 365 mile loop every 34 days between NY and CT clad in 60 lbs of leather. — — Map (db m127580) HM |
| | Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, passed nearby. — — Map (db m28700) HM |
| | Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to the Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, passed nearby. — — Map (db m28822) HM |
| | Cherokee villages and mounds 1/3 mile west a key site for archaeologists. Occupied from 8000 B.C. to 1600s A.D. — — Map (db m75502) HM |
| | This mound marks site of old Cherokee town, Nikwasi. A council of Sir Alexander Cuming with the Indians here lead to a treaty, 1730. — — Map (db m3261) HM |
| | You are standing on land that has been part of a town for about three thousand years. This mound was the spiritual, political, and physical center of the Cherokee town of Nikwasi. A council house or town house on top of the mound held the sacred . . . — — Map (db m75523) HM |
| | You are standing in a reconstruction of a burial hut built in this location over six hundred years ago. Its size and shape are based on evidence gained through scientific archaeological excavation. The outer walls are made of upright posts covered . . . — — Map (db m37203) HM |
| | Organic materials, including the human body, decompose when buried in the ground. Clothing made of animal skins or hides does not survive after many years of burial. Likewise, most pigments used to paint the body do not survive. Foodstuffs placed in . . . — — Map (db m37214) HM |
| | Has been designed a
Registered National
Historic Landmark
Under the provisions of the
Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935
This site possesses exceptional value
In commemorating and illustrating
The history of the United States . . . — — Map (db m37201) HM |
| | Today, members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians continue to honor and cultivate the traditions which have guided their culture for thousands of years. The Qualla Boundary, as it has been known for generations, is a small fragment of the . . . — — Map (db m99076) HM |
| | The first scholarly archaeological study of a Mandan earthlodge village village site was made in 1905 by Harvard University students George Will and Herbert Spinden. They excavated portions of six midden mounds, two houses, six cache pits, and the . . . — — Map (db m154677) HM |
| | Fortification systems attest to the fierce warfare between villagers and surrounding nomadic tribes that is reported in early historic records. Ditch 2 that you seen in front of you at Double Ditch appears to have combined mounds and the ditch, with . . . — — Map (db m154250) HM |
| | Ditch 3 is more recent than Ditch 4 and was constructed in the AD 1500s. Ditch 3, with only a few bastions, encompasses 15 acres and, like Ditch 4, is not visible on the surface. It reflects a fallback to a slightly smaller community and simpler . . . — — Map (db m154708) HM |
| | The raised areas you see around the village are midden mounds or earthen mounds ranging from one to ten feet high. There are more than 30 mounds surrounding the village. The Mandans at Double Ditch disposed of their trash in heaps such as the one in . . . — — Map (db m154930) HM |
| | Geophysical surveys and follow-up excavations have revealed that the village had four ditch fortification systems constructed over a period of 300 years. The fourth, or outermost, ditch had several well-defined bastions and was probably the oldest. . . . — — Map (db m154920) HM |
| | The fortification ditch and house depressions, as well as the site's location away from the Missouri River, immediately caught the attention of archeologists when the site was rediscovered in 1936. At that time, many people believed it was the . . . — — Map (db m154401) HM |
| | This house was built in an oval-shaped pit about two feet deep and measured 16 by 23 feet in size. Before it was excavated in the late 1990s, remote sensing studies were conducted. Precise surface elevations were recorded and about 3,500 individual . . . — — Map (db m154406) HM |
| | has been designated a
Registered National Historic Landmark
under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1955. This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the history of the . . . — — Map (db m153165) HM |
| | Menoken Village was a small community consisting of approximately 30 oval-shaped, earth-covered houses and a prominent fortification system. Once thought to have been a Mandan Village occupied at the time of early contact with Euroamericans, Menoken . . . — — Map (db m154254) HM |
| | Menoken Village is a terminal Late Woodland (ca. AD 1200) settlement on Apple Creek, an eastern tributary of the Missouri River. Menoken is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The site is also a registered National Historic Landmark . . . — — Map (db m154628) HM |
| | Recovered stone, metal, and shell artifacts show that the people were involved in trade systems that spanned the continent. It is not clear how these systems worked. Residents at Menoken probably did not travel far beyond what is now central North . . . — — Map (db m154403) HM |
| | In 1989, inspection of the Lake Ilo dam found that critical maintenance was needed. A notch cut into the spillway lowered the water about 7 feet so the work could be completed. The exposed lake bed revealed remarkable discoveries and mysteries of . . . — — Map (db m153143) HM |
| | Only recently have we been able to accurately determine the age of Huff Village. Archeological deposits and the settlement layout suggests that the village was probably inhabited for only 20 years or so. Fourteen radiocarbon dates and several . . . — — Map (db m154336) HM |
| | Huff Indian Village State Historic Site is a classic prehistoric Mandan settlement dating to about AD 1450, perhaps two hundred years before Euroamerican influence reached the Missouri Valley area. The village is a very large, well-planned community . . . — — Map (db m154135) HM |
| | In front of you is part of the fortification system that once surrounded this village. The fortification system at Huff Village is a classic example of civil defense and community preparation for conflict. Inter-village conflict may have been . . . — — Map (db m154306) HM |
| | In 1959 this area was discovered to be an almost four thousand year old burial ground of the Glacial Kame People-named for the distinctive gravel elevations in which their dead were buried. The area was once a farm owned by Henry Boose, an early . . . — — Map (db m78679) HM |
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Lewis-Sample Farmstead. The farmstead shares the name of the Lewis and Sample families, two owners since European-descended settlers began moving into the Ohio County in the late 1700s. Andrew (1762-1847) and Martha Lewis (1774-1852) acquired . . . — — Map (db m157034) HM |
| | This Adena Mound is the second largest
conical mound in Ohio. These large conical
mounds are believed to be Adena while the
many small or effigy mounds are Hopewell,
a later culture.
This mound is the property of the Village
of Enon. . . . — — Map (db m100536) HM |
| | This burial mound was built during the time period
1000 B.C. to 400 A.D. Because the 15 foot 9 inch
mound is conical shaped, it is believed to have been
built by the Adenda Culture. It is 133 feet in
diameter at the base. The mound received its . . . — — Map (db m99947) HM |
| | Utopia was founded in 1844 by followers of French philosopher Charles Fourier (1772-1837). Fourierism, based on utopian socialism and the idea of equal sharing of investments in money and labor, reached peak popularity in the United States about . . . — — Map (db m99948) HM |
| | Built by people of the Adena or Hopewell cultures during the Early to Middle Woodland era (circa 800 B.C - 500 A.D), the Beam Farm Mound, 1200 feet northwest, has stood on the uplands overlooking Anderson Fork for two thousand years. Notable among . . . — — Map (db m121070) HM |
| | This earthen mound was built between 800 B.C. and 500 A.D. by prehistoric people who lived in this valley. The mound was used for ceremonial purposes. Unlike most other mounds in Ohio which were used for burials. The mound was first excavated in . . . — — Map (db m157909) HM |
| | Beginning around 1000, American Indians in northeastern
Ohio developed a distinct culture known archeologically as
the Whittlesley Tradition. They started building walls around
their small villages. (See illustration below.) Their pottery . . . — — Map (db m140125) HM |
| | Directly across the Cuyahoga River from this spot is the South Park Village. Here, archeologists uncovered the remains of a four-acre, Native American settlement populated by people of the Whittlesey Tradition. The people of South Park lived in . . . — — Map (db m140124) HM |
| | Huron and Erie County are rich in Native American history.
During the construction of the nearby Ohio Route 2 bypass
archaeologists in 1976-77 uncovered three Native villages and
burial sites.
The Anderson site, overlooking the Old Woman . . . — — Map (db m142364) HM |
| | Between three and four hundred years ago, Ohio pre-historic Indians, believed to be of the Erie tribe, pecked numerous inscriptions or pictographs on the top surface of this large native limestone rock. The figures, now nearly obliterated by the . . . — — Map (db m158974) HM |
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Dominion Land Company Mound
An Early Woodlands Period Structure
In the early 1800s, Prosper Wetmore wrote about his childhood
memories of native mounds in the ravine area of Northwestern
Clinton Township. At that time, he recalled two . . . — — Map (db m108853) HM |
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On this terrace bench overlooking Big Darby Creek, people of the Fort Ancient Culture constructed a large circular village with a central plaza and constructed a low earthen mound on the plaza's edge to commemorate the burial location of . . . — — Map (db m141375) HM |
| | Archaeologists believe that this prehistoric mound, part of a complex of earthworks, was used for rituals by the Hopewell people and was probably built between 100 BC and 400 AD. Note the painted post tops marking the Hopewell pole house footprint. . . . — — Map (db m12756) HM |
| | In Grateful Remembrance
this public state park has been created
through the generosity of public- spirited
citizens of Greene county who donated the
land. The prehistoric Indian-mound known
as the “Williamson Mound” thus will . . . — — Map (db m118376) HM |
| | The Madisonville site is the largest and most thoroughly studied
village of the late Fort Ancient culture (AD 1450-1670). Artifacts
were so abundant here that local residents called this site the "pottery field.” Between 1879 and 1911, a . . . — — Map (db m133287) HM |
| | Indian Green This area of western Hancock County is a part of the Maumee River Watershed known as "Indian Green." Wyandot Indians chose this area for hunting and ceremonial grounds along the Blanchard River in the 1700s because it was next to . . . — — Map (db m93378) HM |
| | Modern roads often have their precedents in much older thoroughfares. Two ancient paths once converged near this point. As late as the 1700s, the Salt Trail guided Native Americans from the upper Scioto Valley plains past Cantwell Cliffs, Cedar . . . — — Map (db m24765) HM |
| | On the flat surface of this rock is one of the finest examples of prehistoric Indian petroglyphs or craved writings in Ohio. These figures are carved on an exposed portion of the black Hand Sandstone bedrock which underlies much of east-central . . . — — Map (db m20858) HM |
| | Flint Ridge is a chain of long, narrow hills extending from a few miles east of Newark almost to Zanesville, a distance of more than twenty miles. The surface of these hills is underlain with an irregular layer of flint, which may be only a few . . . — — Map (db m12958) HM |
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The Newark Earthworks is truly one of the most magnificent prehistoric Indian sites in the eastern United States. Covering an area two miles square, it once was the largest earthworks complex in Ohio. The main components of the site are the large . . . — — Map (db m155655) HM |
| | The Indian Lake Region was inhabited by Native American Indian cultures long before white settlers. The Shawnee, Cherokee and Wyandot Tribes were the primary inhabitants, The Algonquin, Delaware and Ottawa tribes also had settlements nearby. Many of . . . — — Map (db m104209) HM |
| | A Prehistoric Fort consisting of earthen walls accompanied by moats, formerly occupied this site. The walls, three to four feet high, probably were surmounted by palisades which together with the steep river banks, rendered the fort fairly secure . . . — — Map (db m25860) HM |
| | The U.S. Army built a two-story blockhouse on a nearby
hill during the War of 1812. The blockhouse was one of a
series of such structures erected along the Greenville
Treaty line to guard against Native Americans who
supported the British during . . . — — Map (db m94537) HM |
| | Bottom panel of text:
You are looking towards the high ground and ridge where an estimated 1,400 American Indian warriors assembled in a crescent formation before attacking St. Clair's army. The American Indian alliance consisted of . . . — — Map (db m137438) HM |
| | About 14,000 years ago, the last glacier receded
from this area. Mastodons, mammoths, and giant
beavers, roamed the region. The ancestors of
American Indians arrived in Ohio during this time.
These Paleoindians were hunters and . . . — — Map (db m136902) HM |
| | Since 2010, the Applied Anthropology Laboratories (AAL), in the Department of Anthropology at Ball State University has conducted archeology research on this battlefield with funding from the National Park Service American Battlefield Protection . . . — — Map (db m137526) HM |
| | "On my way to the center of the camp, I met pale, frightened men running in all directions. Numerous dead bodies ..., proved that many of the Indians had been there before me."
--Kentucky Militiaman Robert Branshaw
You are . . . — — Map (db m137381) HM |
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