MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - As part of our We the People series, we took a trip to the Towosahgy Historic Site in Missouri--a great place to learn history and appreciate nature.

Today, the Towosahgy Historic Site is a place of peace and tranquility: grass swaying, insects buzzing and bald eagles soaring. But about a thousand years ago, it was home to a robust and bustling community of hundreds of Native Americans.

These mounds, seven in all, were built all those hundreds of years ago and remain today as a testament to the people who lived here long before Missouri was carved out of the United States.

“And it preserves a once fortified Mississippian village that was inhabited from 1000 A.D. to 1400 A.D.”

Vicki Jackson is the superintendent of the site. She says Towosahgy is a hidde

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