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Southwold Earthworks
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2009
Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted October, 2010
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2009
Plaque Location
The County of Elgin
The Township of Southwold
On Iona Road, 3.1 km south of Road 3 at street #7930
then a 4 minute walk on a path away from the road
Coordinates: N 42 40.459 W 81 21.635 |
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Plaque Text
This prehistoric site was once a fortified village occupied by the Neutral Indians between about 1500 and 1650 A.D. An earth and palisade wall, later strengthened by a second wall, protected a cluster of longhouses. The Neutrals, who emerged as a distinct group within Iroquois culture about 1450, were so-called because they did not participate in wars with traditional Iroquois rivals. This neutrality aroused the ire of the Iroquois confederacy, and Mohawk and Seneca raids brought about the demise of the Neutral nation by 1650.
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