Norton Mound Group

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Norton Mound Group
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark

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Nearest city	Grand Rapids, Michigan
Coordinates	42°56′11.69″N 85°43′19.13″W / 42.9365806°N 85.7219806°W / 42.9365806; -85.7219806Coordinates: 42°56′11.69″N 85°43′19.13″W / 42.9365806°N 85.7219806°W / 42.9365806; -85.7219806
NRHP Reference #	66000396
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966^[1]
Designated NHL	December 21, 1965^[2]

Norton Mound Group, (also known as Norton Mound Site (20KT1) and Hopewell Indian Mounds Park), is a prehistoric Goodall Focus mounds site near Grand Rapids, Michigan.

According to the National Park Service's Statement of Significance: "These are the most important and best-preserved Hopewell mounds in the western Great Lakes region. The Norton Mound Group was the center of Hopewellian culture in that area, from ca. 400 B.C. to A.D. 400. Excavations in 1874 revealed numerous burials rich in grave offerings, and later excavations in 1963-1964 provided information on mound construction methods. At one time some 40 mounds were present, and though fewer than half remain today, these are well-preserved in a Grand Rapids city park."^[2]

The site was listed on the Michigan Register of Historic Sites in 1957,^[3] and it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.^[2]^[4]

According to the National Park Service, "Severe erosion, flooding, and nearby development threaten the Mound Group."^[2]

"The Public Museum of Grand Rapids has been awarded funding to complete a Cultural Landscape Management Plan that will assess the site's condition. Public awareness of the NHL has increased due to ongoing development of the Millennium Park."^[2]

That plan was completed in February, 2007.

The site is located between Indian Mounds Drive and Interstate 196 near Grand Rapids.^[2]

The Norton Mounds site is currently closed to the public.^[3]

References

↑ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "Norton Mound Group". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
1 2 "Norton Mounds".
↑ Note: A National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination document should be available upon request from the National Park Service for this site, but it appears not to be available on-line from the NPS Focus search site.

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Hopewellian peoples

Woodland period List of Hopewell sites Mound builder (people) List of archaeological periods (North America)

Ohio Hopewell	Beam Farm Benham Mound Cary Village Site Cedar-Bank Works Dunns Pond Mound Ellis Mounds Ety Enclosure Ety Habitation Site Fort Ancient Fortified Hill Works Great Hopewell Road High Banks Works Hopeton Earthworks Hopewell Culture National Historical Park Indian Mound Cemetery Keiter Mound Marietta Earthworks Moorehead Circle Mound of Pipes Nettle Lake Mound Group Newark Earthworks Oak Mounds Orators Perin Village Site Pollock Works Portsmouth Earthworks Rocky Fork Enclosures Rocky Fork Mounds Seip Earthworks and Dill Mounds District Shawnee Lookout Tremper Mound and Works Williamson Mound Archeological District

Crab Orchard culture	Carrier Mills Archaeological District Cleiman Mound Hubele Site Mann Site O'byams Fort site Wilson Site Yankeetown Site

Goodall Focus	Goodall Site Norton Mound Group

Havana Hopewell culture	Albany Mounds State Historic Site Dickson Mounds Duncan Farm Golden Eagle-Toppmeyer Site Kamp Mound Site Mound House site Naples Archeological District Naples Mound 8 Ogden-Fettie Site Rockwell Mound Sinnissippi Mounds Toolesboro Mound Group

Kansas City Hopewell	Cloverdale archaeological site Renner Village Archeological Site Trowbridge Archeological Site

Marksville culture	Crooks Mound Grand Gulf Mound Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site Mott Archaeological Preserve

Miller culture	Bynum Mound and Village Site Ingomar Mound Miller Site Pharr Mounds Pinson Mounds

Point Peninsula Complex	Lewiston Mound Serpent Mounds Park LeVescounte Mounds

Swift Creek culture Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture	Crystal River Archaeological State Park Etowah Indian Mounds Leake Mounds Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park Miner's Creek site Pierce Site Swift Creek mound site Third Gulf Breeze Yearwood site Yent Mound

Other Hopewellian peoples	Armstrong culture Copena culture Fourche Maline culture Laurel Complex Saugeen Complex Old Stone Fort (Tennessee)

Exotic trade items	Copper Galena Mica Fresh water pearls Obsidian Pipestone Sea shells

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