3 mi. E of Anderson on IN 32, Anderson, Indiana. County/parish: Madison.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 18, 1973. NRIS 73000022.
1 contributing site. 8 contributing structures.
Mounds State Park is a state park near Anderson, Madison County, Indiana featuring Native American heritage, and ten ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture indigenous peoples of eastern North America, and also used centuries later by Hopewell culture inhabitants. It is separate from (and about 79 miles northwest of) the similarly named Mounds State Recreation Area (near Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana). The park receives about 400,000 visitors annually.
The park is 1 of 14 Indiana State Parks that were in the path of totality for the 2024 solar eclipse, with the park having 3 minutes and 45 seconds of totality.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132003740