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United States historic place
Sharps Creek site (14MP408)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest cityLindsborg, Kansas
NRHP reference No.72001450
Added to NRHPJune 22, 1972

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.

See also

References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. Sharps Creek Council Circle–Archaeo-Physics LLC
  3. Amy Bickel (September 2, 2007). "Swedish culture, Spanish lore, natural beauty merge in area". Hutchinson News. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
  4. "Chain Mail from the Sharps Creek Site, 14MP408". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved December 9, 2018.

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