Fairmount Park Race Track
Fairmount Park Race Track is a park in Madison, Illinois. Fairmount Park Race Track is situated nearby to the hamlet State Park Place, as well as near Exermont.Places of Interest
Highlights include Monks Mound and Mound 34.
Monks Mound
Archaeological site
Photo: Skubasteve834, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica. The beginning of its construction dates from 900 to 955 CE.
Mound 34
Archaeological site
Mound 34 is a small platform mound located roughly 400 metres to the east of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Excavations near Mound 34 from 2002 to 2010 revealed the remains of a copper workshop, although the one of a kind discovery had been found in the late 1950s by archaeologist Gregory Perino, but lost for 60 years.
Mound 72
Archaeological site
Photo: Carptrash, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mound 72 is a small ridgetop mound located roughly 850 meters to the south of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Early in the site's history, the location began as a circle of 48 large wooden posts known as a "woodhenge". Mound 72 is situated 1½ miles southwest of Fairmount Park Race Track.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include State Park Place and Caseyville.
State Park Place
Hamlet
State Park Place is an unincorporated community in Madison and St. Clair counties, Illinois, United States. State Park Place borders Collinsville to the east and Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site to the west.
Caseyville
Village
Caseyville is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,400 at the 2020 census, an increase from 4,245 in 2010. Caseyville is situated 2 miles south of Fairmount Park Race Track.
Collinsville
Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Collinsville is a city in Southern Illinois in the Saint Louis Metro East area. It is the "Horseradish Capital of the World": 85 percent of the world's horseradish is grown in Collinsville and the surrounding area.
Fairmount Park Race Track
- Type: Park
- Location: Madison, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.6631° or 38° 39′ 47″ northLongitude
-90.0354° or 90° 2′ 7″ westElevation
417 feet (127 metres)Open location code
86CFMX77+6RGeoNames ID
7206386
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