Graham Cave, Mineola, MO (2) - a photo on Flickriver

**Graham Cave** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000420, date listed 10/15/1966

0.5 mi. N of Mineola

Mineola, MO (Montgomery County)

A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).

Graham Cave is located in a State Park about one mile north of Mineola, Missouri. Excavated in 1949 to 1955 by the University of Missouri and in 1967 to 1968 by the Missouri State Park Board, the site was found to have deposits spanning much of the Archaic period and dating back to about 8000 B.C.

The cave derives its name from Dr. Robert Graham who bought the land grant in 1816. In the mid-1800's, Graham gave permission for a French Indian by the name of Foster to live in the cave.

Excavation of the site first occurred in 1890 when Dr. Franklin Graham, Robert's son, aided by Charles Johnson, unearthed several points and portions of a burial.

With the exception of animal disturbance, the cave deposits remained relatively intact for the next 55 years until 1945 when the owner, at that time, a Mr. Ward Darnell, began to clear out the cave with a bulldozer in an attempt to make it into a barn. This bulldozing operation came to the attention of the University of Missouri in 1949; and Carl Chapman, the Director of American Archeology there, immediately conducted salvage excavation at the site to determine its importance.

The early excavators (1949-1955) of Graham Cave claimed that the tool assemblage changed through time, for the earliest levels appeared to contain a larger percentage of lanceolate points than the upper levels which contained more stemmed and notched varieties.

Features discerned during these various excavations include numerous hearths, some burials, and a few pits. Artifacts include: points, bifaces, retouched and utilized flakes, scrapers, drills, cores, hematite, manos, metates, nutting stones, a grooved ax, bone awls and sharpened bone splinters, worked antler, antler points, bone pins and needles, and a fragment of clay with weaving and basketry impressions in it. (1)

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/8181/...

Taken in: United States / Missouri / Danville Township / Mineola (show map)

Taken on: September 7, 2019

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