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Verified places tagged “observatory” in United States · Mysteria

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Verified places tagged “observatory” in United States

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Megaliths

🇺🇸 United States

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Newark Earthworks

Hopewell culture 100 BCE–500 CE · Hopewell (Adena descended, Algonquian? cohort)

Hopewell giant geometric enclosures marking 18.6-yr lunar cycle.

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Chimney Rock Pueblo (Chimney Rock National Monument)

Chaco Bonito (Late Pueblo II) · Chaco (highland Ancestral Pueblo)

Perched astronomical great-house pueblo (c.1075–1125 CE, Chacoan) on 2,280 m ridge between two 30-m chimney pinnacles — southernmost Chaco outlier controlling Upper San Juan timber/ game highland.