{"id":380,"slug":"little-round-hill-trading-site-minnesota","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Little Round Hill is the memory — the 'Flat Mouth's story' that's the childhood attack, the '1852 told' that's the Warren recorded. The 'blacksmith's fort' is the fought — the 'Awashtoyaa' that's the French trader, the '200 Dakota' that's the raiders repelled. The 'musketballs' is the proven — the '1992 dig' that's the lead found, the 'oral validated' that's the dirt confirmed.","The 'borderland' is the contested — the 'Ojibwe-Dakota' that's the hunting grounds disputed, the 'Crow Wing' that's the river's edge. The 'Wadena' is the named — the 'little round hill' that's the word's meaning, the 'town took' that's the name adopted. Little Round Hill is the rare — the 'story matched artifacts' that's the archaeology's win, the 'winter encampment' that's the traders' risk.","The file keeps Little Round Hill: Flat Mouth's account, the blacksmith's fort, the musketballs found, and the name's origin.","Little Round Hill is the archive's Minnesota file — where oral history met the trowel."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Little Round Hill is the archive's Minnesota file — Ojibwe memory proven by musketballs.","A site keeps its told — the file's suggestion being that the hill's hold is the corroborated: the 'Flat Mouth's child' that's the eyewitness kept, the '200 attacked' that's the numbers remembered, and the 'lead found' that's the story's proof."]}],"name":"Little Round Hill Trading Site","aliases":[],"type":"ARCHAEOLOGICAL_SITE","type_label":"Archaeological Site","cats":["ARCHAEOLOGICAL_SITE","ORAL_HISTORY","BATTLE_SITE"],"groups":["ghost-towns"],"desc":"Archaeological site associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"Little Round Hill Trading Site is a archaeological site in Minnesota. Archaeological site associated with documented cultural history. Excavations in 1992 and 2009–2010 recovered occupation evidence consistent with a trading camp; identification with the narrated fort remains interpretive. Local lore holds that Ojibwe oral history recorded by William Warren connects this location with a late-eighteenth-century trading post and battle.","address":null,"city":null,"county":"Wadena","state":"Minnesota","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":46.57598,"lon":-94.97561,"coord_kind":"COUNTY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Publicly interpreted park site; oral tradition is not recast as supernatural. Archaeology supports occupation without proving every narrative detail. Do not disturb deposits.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":64.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.35,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":289,"type":"HISTORICAL_ORAL_TRADITION","description":"Ojibwe oral history recorded by William Warren connects this location with a late-eighteenth-century trading post and battle. The account has been recorded since 1852 account by William Warren; earlier oral transmission is undated.. The reports at Little Round Hill Trading Site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Little Round Hill Trading Site' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Sources including 'Little Round Hill Trading Site' keep the claim in circulation. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":"1852 account by William Warren; earlier oral transmission is undated.","approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Little Round Hill Trading Site","url":"https://www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/place/little-round-hill-trading-site","publisher":"Minnesota Historical Society / Wadena County Historical Society / Lina Belar","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Excavations in 1992 and 2009–2010 recovered occupation evidence consistent with a trading camp; identification with the narrated fort remains interpretive. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Little Round Hill Trading Site'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Little Round Hill Trading Site","url":"https://www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/place/little-round-hill-trading-site","publisher":"Minnesota Historical Society / Wadena County Historical Society / Lina Belar","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Ojibwe oral history recorded by William Warren connects this location with a late-eighteenth-century trading post and battle. The account has been recorded since 1852 account by William Warren; earlier oral transmission is undated.. Little Round Hill Trading Site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":"1852 account by William Warren; earlier oral transmission is undated.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Little Round Hill Trading Site","url":"https://www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/place/little-round-hill-trading-site","publisher":"Minnesota Historical Society / Wadena County Historical Society / Lina Belar","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Old Wadena Park Campground","url":"https://www.wadenacounty.gov/225/Old-Wadena-Park-Campground","publisher":"Wadena County Government","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Little Round Hill Trading Site","url":"https://www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/place/little-round-hill-trading-site","publisher":"Minnesota Historical Society / Wadena County Historical Society / Lina Belar","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":2}}