Who Destroyed the Ancient Breckenridge Creek Indian Burial Mound in Fort Wayne, Indiana?

 Wonder who destroyed the Ancient Breckenridge Creek (Purdue Campus) Indian Burial Mound in Fort Wayne, Indiana?

On the left is my photo of the Breckinridge Creek Indian burial mound taken in 2010. I took the photo on the right in May 2025. Who excavated this burial mound? Purdue University, where the mound is located?  The burial mound is visible from end of the bike path on the Purdue campus.

History of Allen County, Indiana 1880

 "Still further down the river, on the east side, at the mouth of Breckenridge Creek, is a single mound, which has not been opened except a slight excavation in its side, which developed the customary lumps of charcoal. This point is about four miles north of Fort Wayne and is the most southerly point in the county at which mounds and earthworks are known to exist."

 

Hopewell Sioux Burial Mound Saved from University Destruction in Kosciusko County, Indiana

 One of the finest Native American burial mounds in northern Indiana, dating from 200 B.C. -200 A.D. was scheduled to be excavated and destroyed by one of Indiana's university archaeological schools.  Locals objected to the digging and inevitable destruction of this American treasure, but grant money had already been authorized to have the mound destroyed.  Despite this, when the university archaeologists left at night, locals would remove their stakes used in recording the dig. After weeks of frustration, the archaeologist gave up on their criminal act and left.

  
    The importance of this mound is that it links Kosciusko County mound builders with those in central Ohio. The Sioux Hopewell in Ohio and shared similar mortuary practices. This is most telling in the shape of the mound in Kosciusko County that is identical to many others in central Ohio that are loaf shaped and tapered on one end.
   The shape of this burial mound if most prominent in several of the large earthworks in Chillicothe, Ohio, more specifically at Mound City, and at the Liberty Works. Unfortunately, these two mounds were destroyed by the Ohio Historical Society.

Sloped burial mound identical to the one in Kosciusko County, Indiana that was once inside the Liberty Works, near Chillicothe Ohio.  The mound was completely leveled by the Ohio Historical Society.