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The Knife River villages
1300
Mercer County, North Dakota
Chris Light (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Earthlodge towns of the Hidatsa and Mandan, farming corn on the floodplain and trading across half the continent long before Europeans arrived. Lewis and Clark wintered alongside them in 1804 and met Sakakawea here. Smallpox killed most of the population in 1837.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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