Effigy Mounds National Monument- Harpers Ferry, IA
Effigy Mounds National Monument Iowa
Tourist visits Effigy Mounds National Monument and wanders through Visitor Center, located at 151 Iowa Highway 76 in beautiful Harpers Ferry, Iowa 52146
Effigy Mounds National Monument: Trail Hiking
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We hike the trails at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Harpers Ferry, Iowa just north of Marquette IA.
This was an excursion we took while camping at Pikes Peak State Park. View that video here:
According to the brochure Effigy Mounds National Monument holds 206 known prehistoric mounds, 31 in the form of animal effigies. Effigy means a sculpture or model of a person. It was a great hiking adventure with some steep hills. The Fire Point overlook to the Mississippi River was magnificent.
Effigy Mounds National Monument Iowa
Effigy Mounds National Monument Iowa
Effigy Mounds National Monument: Sacred Lands & Waters
Lakota cultural resource manager Albert Lebeau is our guide to this exploration of Effigy Mounds National Monument. The site in northeastern Iowa's Upper Mississippi bluff country has been sacred ground for multiple tribes for many centuries. This video was produced by Hamline University's Center for Global Environmental Education ( and is featured in CGEE's Mississippi Multimedia Gallery ( and Waters to the Sea ( education programs.
Effigy Mounds National Monument and Marquette, Iowa (July 2018)
Welcome to my Road Trip Channel. I love taking road trips with my friends and family. Come join me as I explore our beautiful country :) In this video we explore the streets of small town Marquette, Iowa. We then tour Effigy Mounds National Monument, which is about 3 miles away. The Effigy Mounds are hard to make out, but look cools from some of the aerial shots that are in the visitors center. Thanks for watching! Leave a comment if you enjoyed this. Please subscribe to my channel.
22nd National Park, Effigy Mounds National Monument, 6/25/2017
Harper's Ferry, Iowa
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Footage from our hike through the Effigy Mounds National Monument in 2011.
The Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves three prehistoric sites in Allamakee County and Clayton County, Iowa in the midwestern United States.
The North Unit (67 mounds) and South Unit (29 mounds) are located where the counties meet along the Mississippi River. They are contiguous and easily accessible. The Sny Magill Unit (112 mounds) is approximately 11 miles (18 km) south of the other units, and offers no visitor facilities.[1]
It forms the heart of a cluster of interrelated protected areas. It is adjacent to the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, the Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge, the Yellow River State Forest, and a short distance to the south, Pikes Peak State Park. There are also a number of state-owned wildlife management areas, such as the one at Sny Magill Creek, where Clayton County also maintains a county park.
Prehistoric mounds are common from the plains of the Midwest to the Atlantic seaboard, but only in this general area was there a culture that regularly constructed mounds in the shape of mammals, birds, or reptiles. Mounds were usually constructed in single building episodes. First sod is removed from the ground in the shape of the effigy. Important people were to be buried the in the heart and head of the effigy. Finally earth was made into mounds over the shape.The monument contains 2,526 acres (10.22 km2) with 206 mounds of which 31 are effigies. The Largest, Great Bear Mound, measures 42 meters from head to tail and rises over a meter above the original ground level. Human cultures have occupied this part of the country for so long. Historically, most of the Great Plains to the west of the Mississippi River was covered in grasslands, which are very prone to fires that keep trees from becoming established. Here in extreme northeastern Iowa, the Effigy Mounds area was a point of transition between the eastern hardwood forests and the central prairies. Native American and early settlers would have been able to draw on natural resources available in forests, wetlands, and prairies, making the site hospitable for humans for many centuries.
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Effigy Mounds National Monument is located 3 miles north of Marquette, Iowa on the Mississippi. This collection of mounds are the largest groupings found in America. The mounds were built by the Hopewellian and Oneota Native American Indian cultures anywhere from 1500 to 750 years ago. The mounds are in the shape of bears, eagles, and cones. Some of the mounds were for burial, others may have been ceremonial. In any event, this Monument is a historically important archaeological site in North America.
EFFIGY MOUNDS - WISCONSIN'S ENDANGERED CULTURAL LANDMARKS
Sacred Ground Documentary Series, special thanks to Rob Nurre. Produced by TR Rongstad, Word of Eye Productions, music by Kevin MacLeod.
Effigy Mounds flyover
Marching Bears at Effigy Mounds National Monument near Marquette Iowa.
Disclaimer: this was filmed via private property adjacent to NPS-owned land with permission from the property owner.
Snakes!
Effigy Mounds National Monument in Allamakie County, Iowa
Effigy Mound National Monument- Iowa, Conical Mounds - Part 1
SRAC's Deb Twigg shows us some of the small conical mounds found at National Mound Park - Iowa
Effigy Mounds National Monument B-Roll
Design and production b-roll for the 2017 Effigy Mounds National Monument quarter.
WN@TL - Mapping Monumental Mysteries:Exploring Wisconsin’s Effigy Mounds. Amy Rosebrough. 2018.08.01
Between AD 750 and 1200, communities across much of Wisconsin and portions of adjoining states created earthen burial mounds in the form of animals and spirits—Wisconsin’s famous ‘effigy’ mounds. Thousands of such monuments were created, transforming southern Wisconsin into what some early settlers described as a sculpted landscape. Effigy mounds were built by nearly two dozen communities, many located where Wisconsin’s major cities and towns stand today.
Since their discovery by Euro-American settlers, the mounds have fascinated non-Native peoples. In the late 1800s, a number of eccentric individuals competed to document effigy mounds before the land was broken and developed. The sculpted landscape itself now survives only in the records they left behind, and in fragments saved by early preservationists, rugged terrain, and sympathetic landowners. Today, recent changes in Wisconsin’s burial sites protection law have extended increased protection to the surviving mounds. LiDAR technology has greatly enhanced our ability to locate and monitor damage to the last effigy mounds—while simultaneously changing our interpretations of how effigy building may have come to an end.
Each community seems to have built mounds in its own way, drawing from various artistic and ritual traditions. Though broadly shared enough to comprise a larger Effigy Mound Ceremonial Complex, mound ritual and design varied in discernable ways. Mound form, in particular, reflects the social geography of Wisconsin’s Late Woodland communities, documenting the presence of different social groups in different regions. With the arrival of Middle Mississippian peoples from Cahokia ca. AD 950, some effigy-building communities seem to have retreated and intensified effigy ritual while others quickly abandoned effigy ritual in favor of Cahokian ceremonies and life ways.”
About the Speaker
Dr. Amy L. Rosebrough is a native of the Ozark mountains of southern Missouri who developed an interest in archaeology at a young age. After attending Missouri State University and the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, she moved to Madison and received her Doctorate from UW-Madison for her research into spatial patterning in effigy mound symbolism and Late Woodland ceramic design. She currently works as a staff archaeologist in the State Historic Preservation Office of the Wisconsin Historical Society, where she assists landowners, researchers, and archaeological consultants and maintains archaeological components of Wisconsin’s Historic Preservation Database.
Building & Hiking Iowa's Trails
For nature lovers, few things top a good hike. While the Iowa DNR uses January 1st to celebrate it’s trails with a statewide outing, hikers may not be aware all the work that goes into building the many trails of Iowa.
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Effigy Mounds National Park -Iowa
A brief intro to these mounds which are comprised primarily of Efiigy mounds.
Harpers Ferry, IA
Harpers Ferry, IA: Video shot by Skeye i for the NY Times
McGregor Iowa 1870 and 2017 Street Scenes
This video starts with a photo of McGregor in 1870 and then starts with a driving video exiting from Pikes Peak State Park to the bottom of the hill and it turns right onto main street. This video was taken July 4th, 2017, approximately two weeks before an EF1 tornado hit the town on July 19, 2017.
A couple of things you may find interesting is that McGregor, Iowa, is the home town of the Ringling Brothers family. They started by training their dogs to do tricks and it blossomed into a circus known as The Greatest Show on Earth. The circus ran from 1871 to 2017. The video ends with a photo of the circus wagon located near the corner of A and Ann Streets.
If you would like to donate to restore McGregor and help the families affected by the tornado of July, 2017, please contribute to the Restore McGregor 2017 Tornado Fund.
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Effigy Mound National Monument- Iowa, Conical Mounds - Part 2
SRAC's Deb Twigg shows up a procession of small conical mounds in the Effigy Mound National Monument- Iowa