interesting vid about my home town, but of general interest.

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The Lost Mounds of Aurora - The Hill-Lewis Expedition

In this video, we explore the Lost Mounds of Aurora, situated to the north of the city, along the eastern banks of the Fox River, in Kane County, Illinois. We describe their 1893 discovery and mapping by the intrepid archeologist, Theodore Hayes Lewis, who single-handedly explored and mapped more than 12,000 ancient Native American earthworks in the upper midwest of the United States in the latter part of the 19th century, as part of the Northwestern Archeological Survey, funded and championed by Alfred J Hill, of St Paul, Minnesota.

the mounds are long gone, and a tiny part of the vid. a bit of my hometown history.
but these guys, lewis and hell, were somethin. and a lot about mounds in general.