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Fort Thompson Mounds

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NRHP Reference #
  
66000711

Area
  
8 ha

Nearest city
  
Designated NHL
  
July 19, 1964

Added to NRHP
  
15 October 1966

Fort Thompson Mounds

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.

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.

References

Fort Thompson Mounds Wikipedia