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Mounds in the Kanawha Valley

Darla Spencer is a professor of Native American Studies at West Virginia University.

A section of an 1884 map shows mounds and other earthworks peppering the Kanawha Valley near South Charleston and Dunbar, West Virginia.

Mounds in Kanawha Valley

Map of Burial Mounds in Kanawha Valley

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