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:

    “A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
    Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
    Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
    Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder’s gone,
    I must lie down where all the ladders start,
    In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A city on whom plenty held full hand,
    For riches strewed herself even in her streets;
    Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds,
    And strangers ne’er beheld but wondered at.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)