Ancient Peoples
Those who came before us.
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Prehistoric Copper Mine – Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
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Isle Royale National ParkIsle Royale geology and history
Copper Harbor, gateway to Isle Royale National Park
Map of Isle Royale National Park (PDF file)
Blog entries for Isle Royale National Park
Weather forecast for Copper Harbor, Michigan vicinity
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Southwest Mound with Stockade, Aztalan State Park – Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Aztalan State ParkAztalan; Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town by Robert A. Birmingham and Lynne G. Goldstein
Indian Mounds of Wisconsin by Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg
Blog entries for Aztalan State Park
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Sunset at Southwest Mound, Aztalan State Park – Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Aztalan State ParkAztalan; Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town by Robert A. Birmingham and Lynne G. Goldstein
Indian Mounds of Wisconsin by Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg
Blog entries for Aztalan State Park
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West Side of Silver Mound – Hixton, Wisconsin
From the Silver Mound Historic marker erected 1977: This large, isolated hill is a famous site where prehistoric Indians gathered to quarry a particularly attractive quartzite for the manufacture of chipped stone tools. Several aboriginal quarries are scattered along the rimrock of this mound. Thousands of tons of waste rock from these pits indicated that quarrying was carried on selectively over many centuries. Fields surrounding this mound are littered with quartzite fragments and flakes which accumulated during the process of making and shaping trade blanks for transportation to out lying areas. Stone spear-points, knives, and scapers made from this colorful material have a wide distribution throughout Wisconsin and portions of nearby states. It is known that the earliest Indians who migrated into the midwest, perhaps 10-12,000 years ago, made many spearpoints and knives from rock quarried here; thus this site is one of Wisconsin’s oldest archeological monuments. History relates that the first white explorers mistakenly thought that the Indians were mining silver. Hence the name “Silver Mound.”
Silver Mound Historic Marker from the Dictionary of Wisconsin History
Silver Mound Archaeological Site
Weather forecast for Hixton, Wisconsin vicinity
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East Side of Silver Mound – Hixton, Wisconsin
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Video of Roche-A-Cri State Park Campground – Friendship, Wisconsin
Roche-A-Cri (means shouting or whooping rock) or crevice in the rock as the French explorers called it, is a 300 foot sandstone bluff near Adams-Friendship, Wisconsin. The park, established in 1948, has viewable Native American petroglyphs and pictographs discovered in 1851, but were written a thousand years ago. Roche-A-Cri is made of Cambrian sandstone about 500,000 years old. It is a long narrow flat-topped ridge bordered by shear precipices. The bluff was once an island in the 1,800 square mile Glacial Lake Wisconsin. In 1994 a Wisconsin Conservation Corps group finished a 303 step stairway to the top of the bluff. The 605 acre park has a number of soft trails strewn with pine needles that are all linked to the 41 site shower-less campground. One leads to a prairie restoration project, crossing over a foot bridge on Carter Creek, a picturesque trout creek. All 41 campsites are included in this video. Music copyright 2008 by Maury Smith. Slideshow and photographs copyright 2008, Creative Juice LLC.
Camping at Roche A Cri State Park
Blog entries for Roche-A-Cri State Park
Weather forecast for Friendship, Wisconsin vicinity
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Hopewell Burial Mound, Brady’s Bluff in Perrot State Park – Trempealeau, Wisconsin
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Bow and Arrow, Historic Marker – Hager City, Wisconsin
Bow and Arrow – inscription on historic marker
Wisconsin entries in the Historical Marker Database
Wisconsin’s Historical Markers from the Wisconsin Historical Society
History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers by Sarah Davis McBride
