Help! Any images of the Mound City Illinois Mound?

[E.P. Grondine]

I have not been able to find any images of the Mound City Illinois mound.

Its earth was used to construct the levy there.

It was so big that it was drawn on maps of the Mississippi Valley, but no photographs or larger drawing appear to exist.

Often it is identified on those maps as an "Ancient French Fort", but this is clearly not true.

It may have been drawn as part of a French or Spanish survey; or it may have been photographed during the Civil War when the city was photographed.

Thanks for your help.

[Ernie L]

Nothing here on the pic of the original mounds E.P. ..it seems they have been rebuilt by the park service. If I read it right..they are only 17 feet tall though(shrug)
I found this interesting .
"The first white settlers of the extreme southern portion of Illinois were Tennesseans, but it is not generally known that they were driven here by an earthquake, which gave its first shake December 16, 1811. "
second paragraph http://www.illinoishistory.com/moundcitymassacre.html

[shawomet]

Nothing here on the pic of the original mounds E.P. ..it seems they have been rebuilt by the park service. If I read it right..they are only 17 feet tall though(shrug)
I found this interesting .
"The first white settlers of the extreme southern portion of Illinois were Tennesseans, but it is not generally known that they were driven here by an earthquake, which gave its first shake December 16, 1811. "
second paragraph http://www.illinoishistory.com/moundcitymassacre.html

That would be the Great New Madrid Earthquake and aftershocks, which actually changed the course of the Mississippi River:

http://hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd/


"In the past three centuries, major earthquakes outside of California and Alaska generally occurred in sparsely-settled areas, and damage and fatalities were largely minimal. But some took place in areas that have since been heavily built up. Among them are three earthquakes that occurred in 1811 and 1812 near New Madrid, MO. They are among the Great earthquakes of known history, affecting the topography more than any other earthquake on the North American continent. Judging from their effects, they were of a magnitude of 8.0 or higher on the Richter Scale. They were felt over the entire United States outside of the Pacific coast. Large areas sank into the earth, new lakes were formed, the course of the Mississippi River was changed, and forests were destroyed over an area of 150,000 acres. Many houses at New Madrid were thrown down. "Houses, gardens, and fields were swallowed up" one source notes. But fatalities and damage were low, because the area was sparsely settled then."


This may be the most "at risk" area in the country in terms of the potential for a devastating earthquake. And the New Madrid earthquake was among the most powerful earthquakes known.


http://www.new-madrid.mo.us/index.aspx?NID=102
http://www.new-madrid.mo.us/index.aspx?nid=132

[Ernie L]

That would be the Great New Madrid Earthquake and aftershocks, which actually changed the course of the Mississippi River:

http://hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd/



This may be the most "at risk" area in the country in terms of the potential for a devastating earthquake. And the New Madrid earthquake was among the most powerful earthquakes known.


http://www.new-madrid.mo.us/index.aspx?NID=102
http://www.new-madrid.mo.us/index.aspx?nid=132

Quite amazing..and somewhat frightening. I wonder if this type of event could have caused or contributed to the collapse of the mound builders civilization. (shrug)

[shawomet]

Quite remarkably, I think, is that the New Madrid, Missouri earthquakes caused church bells in steeples to ring as far away as Boston, Ma.!