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User:MTHarden/sandbox/Sugar Loaf Mound (Vincennes, Indiana)

Coordinates: 38°34′30″N 90°13′52″W / 38.5748728°N 90.2310482°W / 38.5748728; -90.2310482
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Sugar Loaf Mound
Nearest citySt. Louis, Missouri
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
NRHP reference No.84002689[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 17, 1984

38°34′30″N 90°13′52″W / 38.5748728°N 90.2310482°W / 38.5748728; -90.2310482 Sugarloaf Mound is the sole remaining Mississippian culture platform mound in St. Louis, Missouri. The mound covers three city blocks, measures approximately 40 feet (12 m) in height, 100 feet (30 m) north/south and 75 feet (23 m) east/west and sits just outside St. Louis. It is located on the former border between St. Louis and the autonomous city of Carondelet. In 1809 the mound was used as a survey landmark when St. Louis was incorporated.[2]

It was purchased by the Osage Nation in 2009 in order to preserve it.[3]

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "Chief purchases Sugarloaf Mound". Retrieved 2010-02-04.
  3. ^ http://carnahan.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=442:osage-tribe-purchases-historic-sugarloaf-mound-in-st-louis&catid=36:111th%20News