Millstone Bluff National Register Site - Eddyville, Illinois

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Millstone Bluff National Register Site - Eddyville, Illinois An archeology site on a hilltop, along route 147, east northeast of Vienna just west of Glendale near Eddyville.

A natural formation, the bluff is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Millstone Bluff is one of numerous sites natiowide to have its "address restricted" by the Register. These sites are often sensitive to attention and visits from the public for various reasons. It is one of two Registered Historic Places in Pope County.

The bluff is home to a prehistoric Native American settlement used in by Mississippian cultures during the Woodland period. The settlement site is little more than depressions sitting atop the bluff which lies within the Shawnee National Forest. The United States Forest Service controls an interpretive trail to the site. There isn’t a great deal to see other than the natural remains of the Mississippian settlement but the bluff contains a stonebox cemetery, a rock art site and a Late Woodland stone fort.