♪♪ ♪♪ South of Muscatine, on the north bank of the Iowa River, rests an ancient grouping of burial mounds.

♪♪ This National Historic Landmark known as Toolesboro Mounds is home to some of the best preserved remnants of the Hopewell culture, a native society dating back as early as 200 BC.

Archaeological evidence indicates that there were at least 20 burial mounds here.

There are seven that remain.

There's a lot of wonder.

There's a lot of kind of sparking of interest.

There's a lot of wow, I had no idea that this was here.

It's important to maintain this just as a reminder of the past.

We're always interested in where we came from, and this is remnants of people that lived here before European contact.

Kohlsdorf: Visitors can explore the mounds by hiking the expansive prairie plots, or by checking out the historical exhibits at the Visitor Center.

Artz-McComb: If you are traveling under the context of the Great River road, this is just one of the many cultural sites along the way, and depending on how far you're traveling, you're going to be able to put this into context with Cahokia in Saint Louis, with what you might have seen in northeast Iowa and Effigy Mounds.

You're going to be able to kind of put it all together, and the picture of both cultural and historic resources that you're going to see along the Great River Road.

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