The area has been claimed as the site of "Casqui", a major town visited by Hernando DeSoto's expedition, by researchers who support a northern route. Parkin, Arkansas has also been claimed as the site of "Casqui".
Large Indian Mound called Sugar Loaf. Located in Vincennes, IN
Sugarloaf mound lies in the neighborhood to the east of downtown Vincennes, IN. Sugarloaf is unusually placed straddling the edge of a bluff, making for the appearance of a larger mound on the downhill side.
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For over two hundred years Sugarloaf was thought to be an artificial structure, and was "crowded with intrusive burials" (History of Old Vincennes and Knox County Indiana, George Green, 1911). A shaft sunk into the mound showed ashes, interpreted as layers, and loess sands. More recent researchers have declared the mound as a natural feature used for prehistoric burials ("The geomorphology of Sugar Loaf Mound: Prehistoric cemeteries and the formation of loess cones in the lower Wabash Valley", C. Russell Stafford, 1998.)
Cemetery Mound in Knox County, Indiana.
Sugarloaf has a base of two hundred and sixteen feet from east to west by one hundred and eighty feet from north to south, rising to a height of forty four feet above the bluff and rising with bluff and mound to one hundred and forty feet above the plain of Vincennes. With a sixteen by twenty five feet platform area Sugarloaf holds a broad view over Vincennes.
It's a nice conical mound, but the park is lacking upkeep. Not much historical information either.
Vincennes and the rest of Knox county once held the largest concentration of moundbuilder architecture within the state of Indiana. Most were destroyed through agriculture and the erecting of the modern Vincennes. Though only a few of more than two hundred mounds that use to populate Knox County still exist, they are of the largest in the state.
Challenge is to climb to the mound, local historical site.
Sugar Loaf Mound is a US Point Of Interest based in Vincennes, Indiana. Sugar Loaf Mound is located at 2425 Wabash Ave, Vincennes, IN 47591, USA.
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