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Norton Mound group
42.9366° N, -85.7220° E
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The Norton Mound group, (also known as Norton Mound Site (20KT1) and Hopewell Indian Mounds Park), is a prehistoric Goodall focus mounds site in Wyoming, Michigan that is under the protection of the Grand Rapids Public Museum.
Historical Timeline
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Probable mound construction
1st century AD
Hopewell occupation span
c. 400 B.C. to A.D. 400
First recorded excavation
1874
Early 20th-century excavation
1915
Land deed to city
1936
State register listing
1957
Griffin excavations
1963-1964
National Historic Landmark designation
1965
Cultural landscape plan completion
February 2007
Archaeological Features
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Burial and Funerary Structures
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