Ancient Iroquois Fort Photographed in DeKalb County, Indiana

Dekalb County

The earthwork is not recognized as a historic site or preserved. Several years ago (before being dissolved), the notorious archaeologists from IPFW trenched this earthwork. It is not known if they restored their dig or left a massive gap in the earthwork. This type of circular earthwork was common along the southern tier of the Great Lakes, extending back to New York state. The date of this earthwork is Late Woodland pr about 200-800 A.D.  Proto-Iroquois artifacts of the Point Peninsula Culture have been found throughout Northeast Indiana. 

History of the Maumee River Basin, 1905

   Beginning in the northwestern part of the basin and following down the streams, we note first, a circular ridge of earth on the moraine, in the northeastern and highest part of Smithfield Township, Dekalb County, Indiana. The ridge is rather indefinite in part, with indications of possibly two original openings, while in other places it is yet nearly three feet in height. Its diameter is about 200 feet,

85 Burial Mound and Earthworks in Indiana photographed with histories and directions to the site.

 

Adena Burial Mound Photographed in Dekalb County, Indiana

The Platter mound has been further reduced in the last one hundred years by digging. The “rude earthwork,” described above was not found. It is located on a high bluff of the St. Joseph River, but is far enough back that it probably is or was not visible from the river. 

History of  Dekalb County, Indiana, 1885

The Indian mound is on an elevation of ground on Sec. &, on the Adson farm. It’s about ten rods from the “Little St. Joe” and on the south bank of a small creek that empties into the St. Joe at this point. It was opened in the fall of 1837 by Silas A. Bartlett, Daniel Strong Jr., John Platter and Frasier Bartlett. They found a large quantity of human bones about three feet from the surface. The elevation was then ten feet but is now only four. It is evident that this was a sepulcher of the mound builders, and the rude earthworks indicate that here was also at some time a fortification.

                                 85 Burial Mound and Earthwork Sites in Indiana

 Large Iroquois Skeletal Remains Found in Mound at a Circular Fort in DeKalb County, Indiana

Iroquois circular fortification is still visible in a patch of woods at the headwaters of Cedar Creek.  The burial mound nearby was leveled by farming.  To see a map where all of the giant skeletons were discovered in Indiana www.nephilimgiants.net : Indiana's Nephilim Giants Map

Smithsonian Annual Report, 1874

Dekalb County, Indiana

We next went to the farm of Henry Gonzer in Fairfield Township, there a mound was overlooked a small lake, which is gradually filling in from the wash of the surrounding hills. The mound is now nearly obliterated by cultivation. We were informed by Mr. Gonzer that it was opened about twenty years ago, when the skeleton was found the thigh bone of which was as long as his leg, and the skull as large as a half bushel measure. We dug a little below the surface, and found a few bones, among which was a broken thigh bone of ordinary size.

 

Maritime Archaic Slate Points from Labrador Dating 3,000 B.C. found in Northern Indiana

The slate points on the left are from Maine and were illustrated in The Lost Red Paint People of Maine, 1930 by Walter Brown Smith. To the right are identical slate points found in Dekalb County, Indiana, and photographed by Cameron Parks. Many of the skeletal remains of the Maritime Archaic were giants.  For info on earthworks and mounds in the adjoining county of Allen County, Indiana  www.nephilimgiants.net : Visit the Iroquois Earthwork, Fort Wayne's First Fort 800 A.D.

Brewerton points are found throughout northern Ohio and into northwest Indiana. There have been two historical reports of Maritime Archaic artifacts in Northeast Indiana. Mark Schurr, from Indiana University, did an archaeological survey of Lagrange County and concluded that prior to 1,500 B.C. the cultural influence of the county was from the northeast and also diagrammed a few Red Paint People/Maritime Archaic points. In another paper entitled “Slate Artifacts from Dekalb County, Indiana,” submitted to the Indiana Historical Society by Cameron Parks who was a local collector of artifacts in Northeast Indiana. Parks photographed several of the slate points and realized that they were identical to points that are found in the northeast and found with the Maritime people.

 

Indiana's Ancient Giant Race

The Burlingame Enterprise (Burlingame, Kansas) August 20, 1903

    The Indianapolis News says; “The way they are digging up seven and eight-foot skeletons 

in various parts of the state leads us to doubt whether we are really the greatest people that 

ever lived in Indiana at all.” That's about the only skeletons that can be found in Indiana. 

The medical colleges got the rest. More on Indiana's giants

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Allen County, Indiana

History of Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1868

     "In removing this- great sand, heap, as in digging at other points within the present limits 

of Fort Wayne, the Indians having deposited their dead here and there, many bones and 

skulls were exhumed and removed. On one occasion, some workmen thus engaged, among 

many others, dug up a most remarkable skull —with high-forehead and general formation 

extremely large — indicating a giant form to the possessor."

Giant Human Skeleton Discovered in Bartholomew County

Chicago Daily Tribune, July 20, 1892, 

Two More Skeletons Unearthed Relics the West Fork Historical Society Will Exhibit at the Fair

   
    Columbus, Ind., July 19. - [Special] – The West Fork Historical Society has unearthed two 

female skeletons from the mound of which the large male skeleton was taken about a year 

ago. It is said one of these skeletons possesses a remarkably fine specimen of Caucasian skull 
and the other one of Mongolian and Caucasian characteristics.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Boone County, Indiana

Marshall County Independent (Plymouth, Indiana) September 1, 1900

    Three skeletons were found in a small mound on a farm near Whitestown. They are much 

larger than skeletons of the present day.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Cass County, Indiana

The Daily Democrat (Huntington, Indiana) December 2, 1895

PREHISTORIC GIANT

A Monster Skeleton Unearthed in Noble Township

   The gruesome relic of a prehistoric giant chief measured nearly eight feet in length. In life 

the individual to whom these bones belonged must have been a veritable giant.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Decatur County, Indiana

The Indiana Gazetteer, 1849

Decatur County, Indiana

   From the size of such bones of the skeleton as remain, it must have once been of gigantic size. 

Giant Human Skeleton Discovered in DeKalb County, Indiana

Smithsonian Annual Report, 1874

Dekalb County, Indiana

       We were informed by Mr. Gonzer that it was opened about twenty years ago when the 

skeleton was found the thigh bone of which was as long as his leg, and the skull as large as a 

half bushel measure.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Delaware County, Indiana

Indiana Geological Survey 1881

Delaware County, Indiana

   
     The Indians used many of the hills as burial places; bones have been discovered which from 

their size would indicate that they belonged to a race of giants.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Fayette County, Indiana

Sunday Vindicator, Sunday, September 12, 1897

NINE FEET TALL

Was This Man Whose Skeletons Was Found In Indiana

    
     The remains indicate that the being of which this was once part, was a veritable giant, 

probably nine feet in height.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Fulton County, Indiana

Logansport Pharos-Trubune August 16, 1898

     A skeleton of a gigantic Indian was plowed up after the removal of two immense stones 

from a field near Kewanna.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered In Grant County, Indiana

Indiana Department of Geology and Natural History, 1883

Grant County, Indiana  

   The ball and socket and thigh-bones were taken to a physician in Upland and he estimated 

the bones were of a man at least nine feet tall and not weighing less than three hundred 

pounds and the man was not fleshy.

Giant Human Skeletons Discovered in Henry County, Indiana

Indiana Geological Survey, 1862

Henry County, Indiana

      About seven or eight miles west of New Castle, a number of Indian skeletons were 

disinterred in the constructing a turnpike, and about the same distance south of town some 

remarkable humans bones and skeletons of giant size were dug out, with other relics, during 

the making of the road.

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