Mounds State Park
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Mounds State Park
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 Circular Mound (2005) |
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| location | Madison County in Indiana (USA) | |
| surface | 1.17 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 44443216 | |
| Geographical location | 40 ° 6 ' N , 85 ° 37' W | |
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| Setup date | October 7, 1930 | |
| administration | Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources | |
The 117-acre Mounds State Park has preserved several mounds , mounds and walls, some of which were created over 2000 years ago. Opened in 1930, the state park is located near Anderson in Madison County in the US state of Indiana and can be reached via Interstate 69 .
The oldest of the 10 mounds are dated to 160 years before our era and are classified as buildings of the Adena culture and the Hopewell culture . The height of the earthworks reaches between a few decimeters and several meters. The largest and best preserved mound is the Great Mound with a circumference of 400 meters. The mounds were used by the Adena for ceremonies and celebrations as well as for astronomical purposes such as observing the solstice , the equinox and other celestial events. With the help of the mounds, the seasons could be divided and the sky positions of the hundred brightest stars, the planets and the earth's moon could be determined. The Hopewell later also used some of the mounds as burial mounds .
At the beginning of the 19th century, the German immigrant family Bronnenberg settled in the area. They worked 250 acres and held horse races on what is now Mounds Road . Frederick Bronneberg Jr. built a two story farm building in the 1840s using all of the local building materials. This included the wood of the native tulip tree as well as self-baked bricks and the limestone for the foundation from a quarry on the White River , which flows in the west of the state park.
The Indiana Union Traction Company bought part of the land in 1897 and operated in the southern section with the "Mounds Park" an amusement park with roller coaster, carousel, roller skating rink, shooting gallery and boat trips on the adjacent White River. The restaurant and dance parlor was the scene of several dance marathons in the 1920s, the Roaring Twenties . With the Great Depression , business collapsed and the Madison County Historical Society acquired the land to transfer to the state of Indiana, which opened Mounds State Park in October 1930. A tree nature trail has also been set up among the hiking trails with different levels of difficulty. Barbecue areas, fishing opportunities, a swimming pool and a campsite round off the leisure facilities. The visitor center was for a long time in the former farmhouse of the Bronnenbergs and has only been housed in a new building since 2003. In 2009 over 390,000 visitors could be counted.
Since January 18, 1973, Mounds State Park has been listed as a prehistoric site on the National Register of Historic Places .
Individual evidence
- ^ Indiana Mounds State Park. (PDF; 527 kB) leaflet (accessed on September 7, 2010)
- ^ Mounds State Park. ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at: cyberindiana.com (accessed September 7, 2010)
- ↑ 2008/2009 Estimated Visitation for SPR. (accessed on September 7, 2010; PDF; 12 kB)
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed May 18, 2016
