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Captain Lewis nor Captain Clark saw these mounds when traveling from
Camp Wood to the post office and church in Cahokia. Clark mentioned
in his journal other mounds he saw in the area but not these. Cahokia's
mounds would have been noteworthy. The site is worth a side trip east
from St Louis, on I-70, to the outskirts of Collinsville IL. It ties
in with the Corps' experience because they saw similar mounds elsewhere-just
not as impressive. The Cahokian tribe built this six square mile complex
gradually from around AD 900 to 1350. Top left, a model of the site
is in the Cahokia Mounds Interpretive Center. The center uses replicas,
artifacts, multimedia displays, and murals to explain the existence
of Cahokia. The two other photos are the Twin Mounds; Fox Mound, above,
and Roundtop Mound, left. They may have formed a mortuary and burial
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