The Kuhn Station Site is the site of an archaeological dig on Silver Creek, near

Edwardsville, Illinois Edwardsville is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Illinois, and is a suburb of St. Louis. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,808. The city was named in honor of Ninian Edwards, then Governor of the Illinois Territory. ...

. The site is roughly .3 hectares in area, and was home to a small village. The site is believed to be from the Mississippian period, but archaeologists also found artifacts dating from the Moorehead/Sand Prairie period, such as ceramics. As well, the village had an earthen embankment surrounding its perimeter, and a low

platform mound Platform may refer to: Technology * Computing platform, a framework on which applications may be run * Platform game, a genre of video games * Car platform, a set of components shared by several vehicle models * Weapons platform, a system or ...

.Emerson, Barry, p.56

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* Emerson, Thomas E., Lewis, R. Barry (1999)
''Cahokia and the Hinterlands''
University of Illinois Press. {{National Register of Historic Places Middle Mississippian culture Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Geography of Madison County, Illinois National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Illinois Mounds in Illinois

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