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Crittenden County · Prehistoric · 1200 – 1300

Tolu Site — Mississippian mounds on the lower Ohio

Near Tolu in Crittenden County, the Tolu Site (15Cn1) was a Mississippian town occupied mainly about 1200–1300 CE (pottery styles; occupation into the 1400s).

It once held three mounds — a platform, a burial mound, and a third of unclear use — and belongs to the Angel phase “Kincaid Set” with Angel (IN), Kincaid (IL), and Wickliffe (KY). Webb and Funkhouser excavated it in 1930; a 1954 plow find west of town produced one of the finest Mississippian fluorite statues known, complete with a rare beaded forelock.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Tolu Site — Mississippian mounds on the lower Ohio." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 23, 2026. Last revised September 23, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/tolu-site-mississippian-mounds-on-the-lower-ohio/.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Tolu Site — Mississippian mounds on the lower Ohio." Kentucky History Drive, published 23 Sept. 2026, last revised 23 Sept. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/tolu-site-mississippian-mounds-on-the-lower-ohio/.

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