Mississippian

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Articles

A small selection of Pages from our Past articles written by Bill Kemp

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McLean County’s first corn farmers also mound builders

It’s been nearly 200 years since the first Euro-Americans began settling would become McLean Co...

Article

Blog

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Corn farming in McLean County … 800 years ago!

Area farmer Nuel Downs, a lifelong collector of Native American relics, is shown here in mid-Ju...

Blog Post

Making a Home

Digital Exhibit

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Mississippian Artifacts and Pottery

The artifacts displayed here were excavated from the only known Mississippian village in McLean...

Digital Exhibit

Mississippian Tools

Mississippians were very resourceful, transforming stone, wood, and bone into a variety of tool...

Digital Exhibit

The Mississippians

The Mississippian Tradition was one characterized by mound building, fortified towns, heavy re...

Digital Exhibit