Toolesboro Mound Group
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Toolesboro Mound Group
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| Nearest city | Toolesboro, Iowa |
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| NRHP Reference # | 66000337 |
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| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Designated NHL | May 23, 1966 |
Coordinates: 41°09′N 91°03′W / 41.15°N 91.05°W
The Toolesboro Mound Group, a National Historic Landmark, is a group of Havana Hopewell culture earthworks on the north bank of the Iowa River near its discharge into the Mississippi. The mounds are owned and displayed to the public by the State Historical Society of Iowa. The mound group is located east of Wapello, Iowa, near the unincorporated community of Toolesboro.
The mouth of the Iowa River was a superb location for people skilled in hunting and the gathering of food. Wild plants living in the rich alluvial soil of the two rivers could be supplemented with fish, shellfish, and waterfowl.
The Hopewell culture was a Native American celebration of the economic surplus, in food and other goods, created by harvesting the natural wealth of the American Midwest. Native Americans, in the Hopewell period, buried their dead in earthen mounds, accompanied by grave goods that displayed their status and possibly their religious and social leadership.
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