• A quiet summer walk through the Marching Bear Group of effigy mounds

    Effigy Mounds

    National Monument Iowa

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Villa Louis

Entry Hall - Villa Louis State Historic Site, Wisconsin.

Wisconsin State Historical Society

Villa Louis State Historical Site & National Historic Landmark - Wisconsin

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Wyalusing State Park - Wisconsin

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Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area is a network of historic and cultural sites in eastern Iowa that tell the American story of farm life, agribusiness, and rural communities, past and present. It is one of 37 federally designated heritage areas in the nation and is an Affiliated Area of the National Park Service.



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Did You Know?

Great Bear Effigy Mound Group

In 1880, Alfred J. Hill and Theodore H. Lewis formed the Northwestern Archeological Survey for the purpose of surveying mounds in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Lewis spent eleven field seasons in Iowa and was the first to map mounds in the present Effigy Mounds National Monument.