Showing the importance of the confluence, there are actually many Pre-Columbian archeological sites near Cairo. One well-preserved site is Wicliffe Mounds. Above is the ceremonial mound.
The other mounds were the locations of houses and burials.
Apparently this place was owned privately for years and was a sort of roadside attraction of dubious quality for a long time.
One mound has been excavated by professional archeologists and the items left in place for the public to view in situ.
Even if some decades bygone roadside attraction business was a pretty doubtful in the way it narrated history within an oral context, I’ll give the bygone business owners some credit for choosing not to vandalize the no “outdoor museum protections within theory,” indigenous archaeological site. It’s definitely one of the mound sites that’s a tad closer towards the figurative condition it was within some 1894 Cyrus Thomas official map than the developments around Blake Mound 🙁 Post I’m really surprise that there are no comments when it comes towards your more Native American/First Nations themed posts, along with some more exception than the rule commenters of growing up in a more Danube Swabian identity South City beyond the handful of Slavic immigrant churches that don’t have a 744 South 3rd Street postal address, but not everybody shares the same life experiences beyond some very figuratively long list of having different personal interest, a belated thank you for uploading these photos of some non Federal Protections Status, Native Americans mound site 😀
I think you have a point that while many of these private owners might fail our modern standards of stewardship badly, we do owe many of them a debt of gratitude for saving many historic sites from complete annihilation. So while they might have irreparably disturbed important archeological remains at times, that is better than entire historic sites ceasing to exist.
Very True, plus it’s pity Native Americans don’t a NAACP sized grassroots when it comes towards more “present day” Fenton Mound demolitions many miles beyond Nashville, Tennessee’s more outer city parts. Just because Missouri beyond Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky has no Indian Reservations within it’s Canadian Province like provincial jurisdiction doesn’t mean that Native American issues don’t exist in the Show Me State, especially during this period of where there’s allot of continued, cross party, proxy war racketeering in Continental Europe’s more Cyrillic Alphabet writing systems parts beyond the Middle East and one giant African continent. All within some very “conveniently” far away distance for allot of hedonistically minded office bureaucrats that are far from of any actual folksy sentiments when you to deal with their “true selves” within an everyday basis 🙁