KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — It’s one of Kalamazoo’s oldest mysteries, and new clues may be revealed Monday afternoon. It involves trying to figure out what is inside the Indian Mound in Bronson Park.
City Commissioners will receive results of a scan from Ground Penetrating Radar during a 5:00 p.m. meeting. It has been there far longer than anything else downtown and even the tribe that once lived at the site isn’t sure what, if anything, is there.
Mounds were used for a variety of reasons by Native Americans, including burial sites, and local Potawatomi still considers it a spiritual place and oppose any archaeological digs at the site.
The unmarked earthwork was originally 58-feet in diameter and rose 4-feet-9-inches from the surface of Bronson Park’s southwest quadrant. According to Library Archives, only the center of the mound has been disturbed. A time capsule was buried there in the 1850s. It was reclaimed in the 1950s and replaced with a new time capsule that isn’t intended to be exhumed for another 30 years.
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