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Fort Thompson Mounds
One of the mounds
Fort Thompson Mounds is located in South Dakota
Fort Thompson Mounds
Nearest cityFort Thompson, South Dakota
Area19.1 acres (7.7 ha)
NRHP reference No.66000711[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 15, 1966[1]
Designated NHLJuly 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]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "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.

See also