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Effigy Mounds National Monument

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2000 Year Old Burial Mounds at Fire Point

Did You Know?
Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves 31 early American Indian earthen mounds in the shape of animals. The monument preserves over 200 mounds representing almost 2000 years of mound building along the Upper Mississippi River.
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