The Mowry Bluff Archeological Site, in

Frontier County, Nebraska Frontier County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 2,756. Its county seat is Stockville. In the Nebraska license plate system, Frontier County is represented by the prefix 60 (it ...

, near

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, is a

archeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and ...

that was listed on the

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in 1974. Its Smithsonian trinomial designation is 25 FT 35. It is a village site that was listed for its information potential. A "house mound" at the site was explored, and the site was described, by archeologist W. Raymond Wood, of the

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, before 1970. The Mowry site is one of many in the watershed of Medicine Creek.

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External links

* More photos of the Mowry Bluff archaeological site at

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