Crossword clues for cahokia
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 6213
Land area (2000): 9.609260 sq. miles (24.887868 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.367176 sq. miles (0.950982 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.976436 sq. miles (25.838850 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10370
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 38.561901 N, 90.172878 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62206
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cahokia
Wikipedia
The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site ( 11 MS 2) is located on the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city ( 600–1400 CE) situated directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri. This historic park lies in southern Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville. The park covers , or about , and contains about 80 mounds, but the ancient city was much larger. In its heyday, Cahokia covered about and included about 120 human-made earthen mounds in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and functions.
Cahokia was the largest and most influential urban settlement of the Mississippian culture that developed advanced societies across much of what is now the central and southeastern United States, beginning more than 1000 years before European contact. Cahokia's population at its peak in the 13th century, an estimated 40,000, would not be surpassed by any city in the United States until the late 18th century. Today, Cahokia Mounds is considered the largest and most complex archaeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities in Mexico.
Cahokia Mounds is a National Historic Landmark and a designated site for state protection. It is also one of only 23 UNESCO World Heritage Sites within the United States. The largest prehistoric earthen construction in the Americas north of Mexico, the site is open to the public and administered by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and supported by the Cahokia Mounds Museum Society.
Usage examples of "cahokia".
In the first place, Captain Bowman’s company, with a few scouts, of which Tom was one, set out that very afternoon for the capture of Cohos, or Cahokia, and this despite the fact that they had had no sleep for two nights.
Some few miles from Cahokia, on the western bank of the Father of Waters, was the little French village of St.
The surprise and conquest of Cahokia by Bowman and his men was like that of Kaskaskia.
She could not write, but a runner from Harrodstown who was a friend of Tom’s had carried all the way to Cahokia, in the pocket with his despatches, a fold of nettle-bark linen.
During the Indian occupation of Cahokia this band had gained a well-deserved reputation for mischief.
It was the loom of many fires at Cahokia, and around them the chiefs of the forty tribes--all save the three in durance vile--were gathered in solemn talk.
We were going to Cahokia, and it was very cold, and when the tireless wheels bumped from ridge to gully, the gentlemen grabbed each other as they slid about, and laughed.
And it was Governor Hamilton’s design to march upon Kaskaskia and Cahokia and sweep over Kentucky.
Hardly had we opened the gate when a tall gentleman of grave demeanor and sober dress rose from his seat on the porch, and I recognized my friend of Cahokia days, Monsieur Gratiot.
A subtle change had come upon Kaskaskia with the new blood which was flowing into it: we passed Cahokia, full of memories to the drummer boy whom she loved.
Home was Cahokia, Illinois, but I couldn't go back because they'd kill me if I did, my relatives and their allies.
Home was Cahokia, Illinois, but I couldn’t go back because they’d kill me if I did, my relatives and their allies.
The Cahokias extinct, we are entitled to their country by our paramount sovereignty.
Beyond that you may perhaps be able to engage Indians to bring letters for the government to Cahokia or Kaskaskia on promising that they shall there receive such special compensation as you shall have stipulated with them.
If he believes the spirits speak to him and show him history, as did those of Cahokia Mounds in what is now Illinois near St.