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Lunsford Pulcher Archeological Site

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Area
  
340 acres (140 ha)

Added to NRHP
  
July 23, 1973

NRHP Reference #
  
73000712

Lunsford-Pulcher Archeological Site

Location
  
Western side of Oklahoma Hill Rd., Columbia, Illinois

The Lunsford-Pulcher Archeological Site is a prehistoric archaeological site in rural Monroe and St. Clair counties in Illinois. The site was the location of a Middle Mississippian village which was probably a satellite community of Cahokia. Several pyramidal burial mounds are included in the site. Archaeological excavations at the site have also discovered the remains of houses and garden beds, making the site one of the few Mississippian villages at which garden beds have been found. The site has been known to European settlers since early settlement of the area in the late 18th century; despite being used for farmland, the site remains in good condition.

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 1973.

References

Lunsford-Pulcher Archeological Site Wikipedia