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Mississippi County

Missouri’s easternmost county: giant bottomland trees, a Mississippian mound town, and the river crossings of the Civil War.

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Parks & Historic Sites

Towosahgy State Historic Site

County Road 502, East Prairie, MO 63845

A fortified Mississippian town and ceremonial center, lived in between about A.D. 1000 and 1400, with an earlier Woodland village beneath it. Grassy trails and signs mark the fortification wall, the plaza, and the temple mound, the largest of the mounds that remain. Towosahgy is an Osage word meaning “old town.”

Where
County Road 502, East Prairie, MO 63845
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