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

    Effigy Mounds

    National Monument Iowa

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Entry Hall - Villa Louis State Historic Site, Wisconsin

Entry Hall - Villa Louis State Historic Site, Wisconsin.

Wisconsin State Historical Society

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Villa Louis State Historical Site & National Historic Landmark - Wisconsin

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Ft. Crawford Medical Museum National Historic Landmark - Wisconsin

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Local Partners & Information Resources



Marquette-McGregor Chamber of Commerce - Iowa



Prairie du Chien Regional Tourism Center



Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area



Allamakee County - Iowa



Clayton County - Iowa

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Upper Mississippi Fish & Wildlife Refuge



Did You Know?

2000 Year Old Burial Mounds at Fire Point

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.