Medicine Creek Archeological District

The Medicine Creek Archeological District, near Lower Brule, South Dakota, is an archeological district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It includes 1,271 acres (5.14 km2) of land in Hughes and Lyman counties.[1]

Medicine Creek Archeological District
Nearest cityLower Brule, South Dakota
Area1,271 acres (5.14 km2)
MPSBig Bend Area MRA
NRHP reference No.86002740[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 14, 1986

The listing included 21 contributing sites, including a village site. It was listed for its potential to yield information in the future.[1]

Medicine Creek is a tributary, coming in from the west, of the Missouri River.[2]

The district includes one or more sites dating from the Plains Woodland period (1-900 A.D.). It includes a village camp, White Horse (39HU88) which has unfortunately been severely eroded.[2]

It was listed as part of a study of the multiple prehistoric and historic archeological resources in South Dakota's Big Bend Area.[2]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Terry L. Steinacher; Dennis L. Toom (April 1980). "Historic Resources of the Big Bend Area, South Dakota (Partial Inventory: Prehistoric and Historic Archeological Sites" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 10, 2019.


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