Good morning,
Today’s forecast calls for a sunny day, with a high of fifty-eight degrees.
At Lakeview School, it’s Caps for a Cure Day today.
On this day in 1965, General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. The New York Times website has the text of the correspondence between the two generals.
Over at Walworth County Today, there’s a story about Whitewater’s Indian Mounds, entitled, “Park name could change to honor history.” The story describes the site in Whitewater, and the efforts of a committee dedicated to its preservation:
In the 1920s, archaeologist Charles E. Brown identified 12 ancient American Indian burial mounds on the site; he also noted that there could be more mounds in a nearby farm field. In 1990, UW-Whitewater professor Frank Steckel found evidence of two burial mounds—lost to decades of agriculture—in the field.
The site became a city park in the mid-1970s and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The site contains conical and oblong mounds as well as effigy mounds shaped like birds, turtles and mink, said Mariann Scott, a member of the committee.
Conical mounds are difficult to date because Native Americans built them for hundreds of years, but the effigy mounds nearby date the group to the Late Woodland stage, from 700 to 1300 A.D., according to the Wisconsin Historical Society.
It’s a remarkable site, in the very midst of contemporary Whitewater, and well worth visiting.