Towosahgy_State_Historic_Site
Towosahgy State Historic Site
Archaeological site in the U.S. state of Missouri
Towosahgy State Historic Site (23MI2), also known as Beckwith's Fort Archeological Site, is a large Mississippian archaeological site with a Woodland period Baytown culture component located in Mississippi County, Missouri, United States. It is believed to have been inhabited from c. 400–1350 CE.[5] The site is maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as a state historic site. The name Towosahgy is an Osage word which means "old town". It is not known if members of the historic Osage people, who dominated a large area of present-day Missouri at the beginning of the 19th century, ever occupied the site.[6][7] The site was acquired by the Missouri state park system in 1967[3] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 as NRIS number 69000113.[1]