Mound City

Mound City is the name of several places in the United States:

  • Mound City, Arkansas
  • Mound City, Illinois
  • Mound City, Kansas
  • Mound City Township, Kansas
  • Mound City, Missouri
  • Mound City, South Dakota
  • Mound City National Cemetery
  • Big Mound City

Other things known by the moniker Mound City:

  • Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, formerly designated "Mound City Group National Monument"
  • The Mound City (passenger train), operated by the Illinois Terminal Railroad between St. Louis, Missouri and Peoria, Illinois
  • Mound City and Eastern Railway, in McPherson County, South Dakota
  • St. Louis, Missouri, known at one time as Mound City due to the presence of several ceremonial mounds similar to the nearby Cahokia Mounds. (The St. Louis mounds have long since disappeared, having been used as construction fill in the 19th century.)
  • The Mound City Blue Blowers, a kazoo and banjo music group with several recordings in the 1930s
  • The USS Mound City, a gunboat used by the Union in the American Civil War

Famous quotes containing the words mound and/or city:

    “Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.”
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)