Indian Mounds park, St. Paul, offers one of the best transportation panoramas going.It overlooks the St. Paul municipal barge terminal, Holman municipal airport, acres of rail-road trackage. heavily traveled highways and the Mississippi river, on Sundays usually bearing speed boats.You can find it from downtown St. Paul by driving northeastward uphill across the Kellogg boulevard ramp and turning right on Mounds boulevard. The six mounds in the park from which you survey the aforementioned scene cover hundreds of years,” Some date from around the beginning of the Christian era. Minnesota was a kind of Indian burial mound center. Over 10,000 have been located and surveyed within the state’s borders. the oldest 3,000 years old. To the archeologist the kind of tells the mound’s age. Among the kinds are cremations, groups of bodies, burial in pits under the mound, simple interment on the mound floor and burial in elaborate log or stone tombs. If you find a mound. don’t start digging. Write to Elden Johnson, Science museum, St. Paul, author of “Hopewell Burial Mounds. Indian Mounds Park, St. Paul. Park Leaflet No. 3.” There used to be 16 mounds at Indian Mounds park and 19 more along Dayton’s bluff. In many, important evidence was destroyed by indiscriminate digging.
Your Weekend by Ben Kern
-Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, Jun 8th,. 1958
