Fort Thompson Mounds

Fort Thompson Mounds

One of the mounds
Nearest city Fort Thompson, South Dakota
Area 19.1 acres (7.7 ha)
NRHP Reference # 66000711[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP October 15, 1966[1]
Designated NHL July 19, 1964[2]

Fort Thompson Mounds is an archaeological site in Buffalo County, South Dakota, near Fort Thompson and within the Crow Creek Reservation. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.[2][3]

At the time of the designation in 1964, it was stated:

This large group of low burial mounds dating from Plains-Woodland times (c. 800) contains evidence of the first pottery-making peoples in area. It is situated on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 "Fort Thompson Mounds". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
  3. Note: A National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination document should be available upon request from the National Park Service for this site, but it appears not to be available on-line from the NPS Focus search site.

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