Schaefer Mammoth Site

Schaefer Mammoth Site (HMPT5)

Location: Kenosha, WI 53144 Kenosha County
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Country: United States of America
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N 42° 38.46', W 87° 59.865'

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Over 12,000 years ago, Native Americans slaughtered a Northern Woolly Mammoth in a small lake near this site. Between 1992-93, the Kenosha Public Museum excavated the site and concluded that the woolly mammoth stood at 11 feet and weighed 14,000 pounds or 7 tons. This mammoth, or Ice Age elephant, lived among spruce trees and steppe-like vegetation during the Pleistocene glacial epoch. The Schaefer Mammoth Site is one of the oldest mammoth discoveries in the New World, definitively proving that people hunted mammoth east of the Mississippi River.
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HM NumberHMPT5
Series This marker is part of the Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society series
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Marker Number420
Year Placed1999
Placed ByWisconsin State Historical Society
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Date Added Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 at 6:20am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)16T E 418202 N 4721432
Decimal Degrees42.64100000, -87.99775000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 42° 38.46', W 87° 59.865'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds42° 38' 27.60" N, 87° 59' 51.90" W
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Area Code(s)262
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 15310-15406 County Highway E, Kenosha WI 53144, US
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