Sharps Creek Archeological Site

Address Restricted, Lindsborg, Kansas. County/parish: McPherson.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 22, 1972. NRIS 72001450.

1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • Swenson Archeological Site:14MP301

From Wikipedia:

Sharps Creek site

Sharps Creek site or Swenson site (14MP301) is an historic site in Lindsborg, Kansas.

A magnetic gradiometer survey of the site has been conducted. The site was occupied from circa 1500 to 1800. In 1915 a professor at nearby Bethany College found Spanish chain mail at the site, which led to the naming of nearby Coronado Heights, a large hill few miles northeast of the site The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

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