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Garden beds in various parts of the county, some of them on ancient 

 Beaver Meadows. 



Eepoited by Gerard Fovvke. 



Shiawassee County. 



A group of six or seven mounds in Middlebury Township, obliterated 

 by the plow. 



Garden beds on Sections 6 and 7, Vernon Township, and on Sections 

 12 and 13, Owosso. 



Effigy mounds on Sec. 19, T. 7 N., R. 3 E., Caledonia Township. 



Mounds and graves at the old Indian village of Kechewoudaugoneug, 

 in T. 6 N., R. 4 E., Vernon Township; on Sec. 19, T, 7 N., R. 3 E., in 

 Caledonia ; on Sec. 13, Owosso ; on S. ^, S W. i, Sec. 23, T. 7 N., R. 1 E., 

 Medeberry ; SE. i, Sec. 23, T. 7 N., R. 1 E. ; Sec. 26, T. 7 N., R. 1 E. ; 

 SW. i. Sec. 13, T. 7 N., R. 2 E., Owosso ; SW. i. Sec. 12, T. 7 N., R. 2 

 E. ; S. ^ SW., 1, Sec. 2, T. 7 K., R. 2 E. 



Mentioned by H. H. Carson, Am. Antiq., vol. 9, pp. 237, 238. 



A group of six mounds 1 mile east of the village of Ovid. 



Described and located on a plat by M. L. Leacb, Sin. Rep., 1884, pp. 840,841. 

 Papers relating to anthropology, for 1884, by O. T. Mason, pp. 1-4. 



Tuscola County. 



Mounds on Houghton Creek, in Vassar Township, in the northeast 

 section of tbe township. 



Mounds on Gooding Creek, in the center of the township. 



Mounds in Geneva Township, on Saginaw Bay, 3 miles north of 

 Unionville. 



Earthworks (explored) on Square Creek, in Akron Township. 



Mounds and earthworks on Quanicassee Creek. 

 Reported by Gerard Fowke. 



Wayne County. 



A number of small mounds near Huron River, on a dry plain or bluff 

 30 miles from Detroit. Explored ; human bones obtained. 



Ancient works "representing a fortress "on the east bank of the 

 Huron River near its mouth. 



Three small mounds and a fortification at Belle Fontaine or Spring- 

 Wells, 3 miles below Detroit. One mound contained bones, stone axes, 

 arrowheads, etc. 



Mentioned in Western Gazetteer, or Emigrant's Directory (1817), p. 170. 



The "Great Circular Mound" near Detroit River, three quarters of 

 a*mile northeast of the "Great Rouge Mound," near Fort Wayne. 

 Explored ; Eleven skeletons, burial vases, stone, horn, shell, and copper 

 articles found. 



Description and figure by Henry Gillman, Sm. Rep., 1873, pp. 3G7-368 ; 6th 

 Rep. Peab. Mus. (1873), p. 12. Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci,, vol. 24 (1875), 

 p. MC. 



