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978:Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture
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865:Trowbridge Archeological Site
812:Naples Archeological District
109:Show map of the United States
1175:Eastern Agricultural Complex
916:Bynum Mound and Village Site
898:Mott Archaeological Preserve
21:United States historic place
1306:Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound
1291:Mariemont Historic District
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1331:Short Woods Park Mound
1058:Fourche Maline culture
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837:Toolesboro Mound Group
483:List of Hopewell sites
393:: Somerset, 1999, 565.
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353:: Williams, 1881, 266.
1393:Contributing property
1230:Hamilton County, Ohio
644:Rocky Fork Enclosures
639:Portsmouth Earthworks
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549:Everett Knoll Complex
326:National Park Service
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181:1 acre (0.40 ha)
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847:Kansas City Hopewell
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271:and divers types of
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764:Norton Mound group
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669:Stubbs Earthworks
649:Rocky Fork Mounds
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519:Cary Village Site
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141:Coordinates
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619:Oak Mounds
295:References
254:Montgomery
246:Section 30
242:Mill Creek
218:U.S. state
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