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Edina Realty
1000 Superior Blvd., #200
Wayzata, MN 55391
Janet:
Based on our fieldwork yesterday at 1480 Green Trees Road in Orono, I am officially authenticating part
of this property as a burial ground per Minnesota Statutes 307.08.This burial ground is part of a group
of prehistoric burial mounds first mapped in detail on May 28, 1883 by sunreyor Theodore Lewis. Lewis
mapped 20 mounds extending from the west edge of Browns Bay to about 1100 feet west,just north of
Bracketts Point. Prior to the Lewis visit,St. Paul druggist Robert Sweeney had dug into two of the
mounds in 1867 recovering human remains and pottery; at that time the mounds were referred to as
the Stanration Point Mounds. In July 1947, archaeologist Lloyd Wilford of the University of Minnesota
partially excavated Mounds 10 and 11. Mound 11 contained human remains. Wilford referred to the
mounds as the Halpin Group after the landowner at that time. In the 1950s, the mounds were given the
official state number of 21HE3.
Mounds 8-14 are within the property boundaries of 1480 Green Trees Road. All of these mounds are
visible,although onl.y the west end of linear mound 14 is still visible just west of the driveway.The other
mounds are largely intact with some edge destruction due to road construction on Co Rd 15 on the east
edge of the property and on Green Trees Road on the north.Soil probes in the projected location of
Mound 14 indicated that mound fill and perhaps pit features may be intact east of the driveway.We do
not know if any remnants of Mound 14 exist under the driveway, but have to assume that possibility as
the driveway sub-grade construction may not have penetrated deeply into the soil.
Yesterday,we placed pink pin flags to show the burial ground boundary. I used a standard 20-foot buffer
for the mounds east and south of the driveway, but only a 10-foot buffer for the remnant of Mound 14
west of the driveway due to the constraint of the road immediately to the north and landscaping to the
. west. Because a distance of more than 100 feet exists between the northernmost mounds (8, 9, 10, 13,
14) and the southernmost mounds(11 and 12), I have placed them into two discrete burial grounds with
a gap between them.The boundary of Mounds 11-12 was created by drawing a 20-foot buffer beyond
the base of each mound and then connecting the ares.The boundary of the northern group has
boundary formed by the construction limits of Co Rd 15 on the east and Green Trees Road on the north.
The southern boundary is formed by connecting the west edge of a 20-foot buffer around Mound 10 to
the 10-foot buffer around the remnant of Mound 14.The west edge is 10 feet west of the Mound 14
remnant.
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The approximate boundary of the burial grounds is shown on the attached map, which is not an official
land survey map, but a sketch map for the purposes of this burial authentication. I recommend that the
current landowner or future landowner have the boundary we marked officially surveyed and added to
the plat.
Because this burial ground is affiliated with Indian burials, per Minnesota Statutes 307.08, no
disturbances are permitted within the burial grounds without the permission of the Minnesota Indian
Affairs Council (MIAC). I have copied their representative,Jim Jones,on this letter. I have also copied the
City of Orono planning and zoning authority. I will email copies of the letter to the children of the
landowner. Any prospective buyer of the property should also be given a copy of the letter.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely, �
Scott Anfinson
State Archaeologist
Cc: Jim Jones, MIAC
City of Orono
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