Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site preserves the central section of the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico. Occupied from 700 to 1400AD, the city grew to cover 4,000 acres, with a population of between ten and twenty thousand at its peak around 1100AD. The site is dominated by the hundred-foot-tall Monks Mound, the largest prehistoric earthen mound in the Americas, and supported several multiple-mound satellite villages in St. Louis, East St. Louis, Mitchell, Dupo, and Lebanon Emerald Mound. In 1965 Cahokia Mounds was designated a National Historic Landmark and placed on the National Register of Historic Places and in 1966 and in December 1982 was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
After work I impulse traveled as far south in Illinois as I could. I wanted to make the most out of the weekend and began a journey that first starts in Cahokia Mounds.
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I made it to Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville, IL!
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I read a placque about the Twin Mounds at Cahokia
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