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stones, celts, etc., found a half mile southwest of New Albin, 
by Mr. R. H. Thompson. 
Copper beads and other trinkets have been found from time 
to time by the workmen in the gravel pits in the north part of 
the town, and just over the line in Minnesota, on the terrace, 
are two mounds now nearly obliterated. Hill, Brower and Winch- 
ell in Aborigines of Minnesota say that there were nine more to 
the south of these in Iowa, wherq is now the railroad gravel pit. 
On the top of the high bluff a little north of the village, and 
over the line in Minnesota, is a group of four tumuli or conical 
burial mounds, and to the southwest of these on a terrace on the 
north side of the Winnebago Creek, is a large group containing 
forty — all of the conical type. About one mile southwest of the 
village but still on the terrace, there was formerly a circular 
earthwork now obliterated by cultivation. 
The south end of the terrace where it abuts on the flood plain of 
the Oneota, consists of four salient points and three re-entrants, 
the most easterly of which extends as a drainage valley up to the 
junction of the Iowa River and state line roads, and up the east 
branch of which the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway 
ascends to the level of the top of the terrace. 
On the most westerly salient, near the extreme point is a mound 
about twenty feet in diameter and two feet high, which tradition 
says is the burial place of an Indian chief named Four-eyes. Mrs. 
Hausman, a daughter of Mr. Hayes who first settled on the 
land, and who later built a large and comfortable residence, 
since burned down, close beside this mound, says that an old 
Indian woman told her parents that, when a child, she saw the 
burial and that a hole was dug and in it was placed the chief’s 
dead horse with him astride, dressed in all his finery, and that 
the earth was then heaped around and over the horse and man. 
On the next point to the east are Indian graves but no mounds. 
On, the third is a mound, while somewhere to the north of these 
points, in the fields, was located the circular earthwork mentioned 
before. 
No doubt the New Albin terrace like those of the Oneota Valley 
has been occupied for centuries as camp or village sites by, at 
times, comparatively numerous populations of the Aborigines. 
Resulting from these occupancies are the very numerous burials, 
the covered up debris of camps, and the earthworks — mound, for- 
tifications, and totemic. 
