Mowry Bluff Archeological Site

Mowry Bluff Archeological Site
Mowry Bluff Archeological Site is located in Nebraska
Mowry Bluff Archeological Site
Mowry Bluff Archeological Site is located in the United States
Mowry Bluff Archeological Site
LocationWestern side of Medicine Creek, immediately east of the center of Section 25, Township 5 North, Range 26 West[2]
Nearest cityCambridge, Nebraska
Coordinates40°22′19″N 100°13′26″W / 40.37194°N 100.22389°W / 40.37194; -100.22389
Area10 acres (4.0 ha)
NRHP reference No.74001115[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 12, 1974

The Mowry Bluff Archeological Site, in Frontier County, Nebraska, near Cambridge, Nebraska, is a 10-acre (4.0 ha) archeological site that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Its Smithsonian trinomial designation is 25 FT 35. It is a village site that was listed for its information potential.[1] A "house mound" at the site was explored, and the site was described, by archeologist W. Raymond Wood, of the University of Missouri, before 1970.[2] The Mowry site is one of many in the watershed of Medicine Creek.

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Wood, W. Raymond. "The Mowry Bluff Site, 25FT35". Plains Anthropologist 14.44 (1969): 3-6: 3.


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