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Effigy Mounds National Monument

The park was created in October 1949 to protect a small area along the banks of the Mississippi River where Native Americans built earthen mounds for millennia.


NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility.

Published September 11, 2005

Source:
Landsat 7
Collection:
U.S. National Parks