History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . d to have existed in Du-plain in considerable numbers, and the claim is still urgedthat marks of the presence thereof may yet be seen. Sec-tion 32 is said to contain the site of what was probablythe largest mound in this portion of the country. It is onthe farm of Edward Paine, and despite the fact that it hasbeen plowed over year after year, there yet remain tracesof it, although they are vague. It is thought to have beenforty feet in length extending east and west, and about fivefeet high, while upon its side grew an oak-tree fourteeninc
History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . d to have existed in Du-plain in considerable numbers, and the claim is still urgedthat marks of the presence thereof may yet be seen. Sec-tion 32 is said to contain the site of what was probablythe largest mound in this portion of the country. It is onthe farm of Edward Paine, and despite the fact that it hasbeen plowed over year after year, there yet remain tracesof it, although they are vague. It is thought to have beenforty feet in length extending east and west, and about fivefeet high, while upon its side grew an oak-tree fourteeninches in diameter. Three skulls and a number of boneswere excavated at a comparatively recent date, and it isfurther alleged that later investigations revealed whatmight have been a fireplace some distance below the sur-face, in the southwest part of the mound. Southwest ofthe spot mentioned were several smaller mounds, and ashort distance towards the northwest were two others, thelarger of which was four feet high and twenty-five feetwide at the
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