Restoration work began this week on an ancient mound located in Kalamazoo’s Bronson Park.
The indigenous people of pre-colonial North America were known to build mounds that look like large hills for ceremonial purposes.
One of those mounds is in Bronson Park. Though experts have not been able to attribute it to a specific people, ground-penetrating radar studies show the mount is similar to other earthen structures around Southwest Michigan that have been radiocarbon-dated to between 500 and 1200 AD…