LYON COUNTY GENEALOGY

 

INDIANS HERE

High on the west hill overlooking Bonnie Doon is the burial site of Indians. These were the Mound Builders, and it can only be guessed at how far back in pre-White Man history these aboriginals lived here. As you view the hill looking west down Main Street you see a line fence on the crest of the hill that several mounds may still be faintly seen. Years of cultivation has all but removed them, however. The earliest printed reference to the burial mounds was by S.H. Hyde in his pamphlet of 1872,

 

 

 

 

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