Grand Meadow Quarry Archeological District

	Grand Meadow Quarry Archeological District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Grand Meadow, Minnesota
Area	170 acres (69 ha)
NRHP reference No.	94000345
Added to NRHP	April 8, 1994

The Grand Meadow Quarry Archeological District in Mower County, Minnesota is a 170 acres (69 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[1] The principal site within the District is The Grand Meadow Chert Quarry. Although the site was recorded as being 170 acres, a pristine 8-acre remnant of the original quarry still exists in a small woods. That portion of the site is being developed for public access with a self-guided walking tour by the Prairie Island Indian Community and the Mower County Historical Society.^[2]

It is an area, first identified by Grand Meadow resident Maynard Green, of pre-contact chert open pit mining.

It includes various chert quarrying sites used to make stone tools c. 8000 BCE–1600 CE.^[3]

The quarry is the only known source for "Grand Meadow Chert," a stone used by Native Americans to make many everyday tools, including spear points, arrowheads, knives and scrapers.^[4]

Grand Meadow Chert has been found at archaeological sites in 52 counties in Minnesota.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ "The Grand Meadow Chert Mine". Mower County Historical Society. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
^ Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.
^ "Mower County Historical Society receives large grant for archaeological site". My Austin Minnesota. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2020-12-29.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.

[mchs-2] "The Grand Meadow Chert Mine". Mower County Historical Society. Retrieved April 25, 2019.

[Nord-3] Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.

[4] "Mower County Historical Society receives large grant for archaeological site". My Austin Minnesota. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2020-12-29.

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