Cemeteries in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin

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History. The settlement of Blue Mounds was founded in 1828 by Ebenezer Brigham on the south slope of the eastern mound of the Blue Mounds. In 1832, when word arrived that Chief Black Hawk and his 1200 Sauk followers had crossed the Mississippi River, it was decided to build a fort to protect the settlers.

The village is adjacent to the Town of Blue Mounds, and is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. Blue Mounds was named by French missionaries for the blueish hue of three nearby mounds.

Prior to European colonization, there may have been more than 15,000 mounds in the state; perhaps 4,000 of these remain today. Wisconsin is the center of effigy mound culture.

Wisconsin's earliest Native American residents expressed reverence for the dead with carefully constructed mounds that can still be seen today throughout the state. Burial typically would consist of the deceased being laid in a small pit or placed on a platform, then the mound being built over them.

Native Americans we now know as the Effigy Mound Builders lived in Wisconsin and bordering states between 700 and 1200 A.D. These Native Americans built mounds shaped like mammals, reptiles, birds, and other creatures, both real and mythical.

Radiocarbon dating has placed the people who built the mounds to have lived roughly between 650 – 1200 C.E. Archaeologists believe that effigy mounds came after Hopewellian-period conical and linear mounds, which were also built for burial and ceremonial purposes but are found mainly in the northern half of the state.

The first people to climb over the fallen rock and into Cave of the Mounds were Charles Brigham, Jr., son of the landowner, Lance Dodge, Wayne Lampman, and Stacy Collins. Their eyes were the first to see the spectacular beauty of a cave that is now visited by thousands of people every year.

It spans nearly 2 billion years and involved tropical weathering of the Earth's most ancient crust; development of some of the earliest life forms; rain storms that repeatedly spread sand across broad, unvegetated valleys; tectonic upheaval; percolating groundwater that cemented the sand into sandstone, and eventually ...

Radiocarbon dating has placed the people who built the mounds to have lived roughly between 650 – 1200 C.E. Archaeologists believe that effigy mounds came after Hopewellian-period conical and linear mounds, which were also built for burial and ceremonial purposes but are found mainly in the northern half of the state.

Native Americans we now know as the Effigy Mound Builders lived in Wisconsin and bordering states between 700 and 1200 A.D. These Native Americans built mounds shaped like mammals, reptiles, birds, and other creatures, both real and mythical.