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YEARBOOK, PUBLIC MUSEUM, MILWAUKEE 



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The mounds were located on the small but bold promontory- 

 shown in figure 66. It is formed b}- the steep eastern bank of the river, 

 and by a precipitous guUey that cuts in from the shore in a north- 

 easterly direction. Perhaps a stream once flowed down to the river at 

 this point, but it is now represented only by a sluggish trickle, and a 

 small level flat fills the mouth of the gully. The locality is a very 

 short distance north of the present boundary of the city of Milwau- 

 kee, in Shorewood, and lies west and a httle to the north of the car- 

 barns of the Milwaukee Electric Railwaj^ and Light Company. 



Fig. 66. — Ravenna Park mound site from the south. 



Years ago it is said to have been included in what was then known as 

 Mineral Spring Park, later called Ravenna Park, but is now a rather 

 wild and quiet tract of woodland, populated by rabbits, fox-squirrels, 

 occasional skunks, and a pleasing variety of wild birds. 



So sure was the writer that these mounds, which had lain undis- 

 covered for several centuries, would not be disturbed until he was 

 ready to explore them, that he was quite startled when some small 

 boys of the neighborhood brought him a handful of potsherds, some 

 chips, and an arrow-point, and told him that they had dug these ar- 

 ticles out of one of his secret mounds. A talk with the boys resulted 



