Mount Vernon Site
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mount-vernon-site-164-12864387
title:
Mount Vernon Site
text:
The Mount Vernon Site, also known as the GE Mound, is a Hopewell site near Mount Vernon in southwest Indiana. The site was discovered and mostly destroyed in 1988 during road construction at a General Electric plastic manufacturing facility. The mound was partially leveled, used for road fill, and subject to widespread looting shortly after its discovery, resulting in a contentious and precedent-setting prosecution under the Archeological Resources Protection Act. It was one of the five largest
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Hopewell Culture archeological site
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vernon_Site
date created:
2024-06-03T05:42:19Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T00:53:36Z
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