Medicine Rock State Historic Site

Address Restricted, Heil, North Dakota. County/parish: Grant.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 25, 1986. NRIS 86002757.

1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • Medicine Butte
  • Medicine Hill
  • Medicine Stone
  • Me-me-ho-pa
  • Miho

From Wikipedia:

Medicine Rock State Historic Site

Medicine Rock State Historic Site near Heil, North Dakota was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Other names associated with the site are Medicine Hill, Medicine Butte, Me-me-ho-pa, Medicine Stone, and Miho.

It is the largest of six sites in North Dakota with rock art paintings, and was the location of ceremonies, and has been long known to natives and non-natives. Lewis and Clark did not visit it but wrote of it.

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