Emerald Mound and Village Site


Emerald Mounds and Village Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Artists conception of the site
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Location	Northwest of the junction of Emerald Mound Grange and Midgley Neiss Rd., Lebanon, Illinois
Coordinates	38°37′50″N 89°47′9″W / 38.63056°N 89.78583°W / 38.63056; -89.78583Coordinates: 38°37′50″N 89°47′9″W / 38.63056°N 89.78583°W / 38.63056; -89.78583
Area	145 acres (59 ha)
NRHP Reference #	71001026^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 26, 1971

The Emerald Mound and Village Site (Emerald Site) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located northwest of the junction of Emerald Mound Grange and Midgley Neiss Roads in St. Clair County, Illinois. The site includes five mounds, two of which have been destroyed by modern activity, and the remains of a village. Middle Mississippian peoples inhabited the village, which was a satellite village of Cahokia. The largest of the mounds is a two-tiered structure that stands 50 feet (15 m) high; its square base is 300 feet (91 m) across, while its upper tier is 150 feet (46 m) across. At the time of its discovery, the mound was the second-largest known in Illinois after Monks Mound at Cahokia.^[2]

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 26, 1971.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Reed, Nelson A. National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Emerald Mound and Village Site. National Park Service, 1969-09-12.

Mississippian and related cultures

Middle Mississippian

American Bottom and Upper Mississippi	Aztalan Big Eddy Cahokia Monks Mound Mound 34 Mound 72 Woodhenge Cloverdale Dickson Mounds Emerald Mound and Village Emmons Cemetery Horseshoe Lake John Chapman Kuhn Station Larson Lunsford-Pulcher McCune Mitchell Orendorf Sleeth Steed-Kisker culture Sugarloaf Mound

Lower Ohio River and Confluence area	Adams Dogtooth Bend Kincaid Mounds Marshall Millstone Bluff Orr-Herl Rowlandton Mound Towosahgy Turk Twin Mounds Ware Wickliffe Mounds

Middle Ohio River	Angel Mounds Angel Phase Annis Mound Bone Bank Caborn-Welborn culture Ellerbusch Hovey Lake-Klein Hovey Lake District Murphy Prather Slack Farm Tolu Welborn Village Yankeetown

Tennessee and Cumberland	Backusburg Beasley Mounds Brentwood Library Brick Church Castalian Springs Dunbar Cave Fewkes Group Mound Bottom Riverview Mounds Archaeological Site Sellars Indian Mound Obion Mounds Old Town Swallow Bluff Island Mounds

Central and Lower Mississippi	Belle Meade Phase Boyd Mounds Campbell Chucalissa Eaker Menard-Hodges Murphy Mound Parkin Nodena Phase Nodena Site Tipton Phase Tunica Walls Phase

South Appalachian
Mississippian

Fort Walton culture

Pensacola culture

Plaquemine Mississippian

Caddoan Mississippian

Upper Mississippian
cultures

Oneota	Beattie Park Mound Group Blood Run Hartley Fort State Preserve Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs

Fort Ancient culture	Alligator Effigy Mound Clover Dodge Leo Petroglyph Serpent Mound SunWatch Indian Village

Culture

Artwork	Emmons mask Long-nosed god maskette Mississippian copper plates Rogan plates Spiro plates Wulfing cache Mississippian culture pottery Mississippian stone statuary Shell gorget

Languages	Caddoan languages Central Algonquian languages Cherokee language Mobilian Jargon Muskogean languages Natchez language Siouan languages Timucua language Tunica language Yuchi language

Religion	Ballgame Black drink Ceremonial pipe Chunkey Earth/fertility cult Green Corn Ceremony Horned Serpent Platform mound Southeastern Ceremonial Complex Stone box grave Thunderbird Underwater panther

Related topics: Chevron bead; Clarksdale bell; Maize; Mill Creek chert; de Soto Expedition

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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