Chief Looking's Village site (32BL3)

The Chief Looking's Village Site (32BL3) is a historic archeological site on the east side of Pioneer Park in Bismarck, North Dakota, that was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It has also been known as Ward Earth Lodge Village. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1]

Chief Looking's Village site (32BL3)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Eastern edge of Pioneer Park, Bismarck, North Dakota
Coordinates	46°49′48″N 100°49′45″W
Area	24 acres (9.7 ha)
NRHP reference No.	78001990[1]
Added to NRHP	November 21, 1978

It is a Mandan village site that, as of its NRHP listing, had never been severely vandalized or disrupted by archeological excavations, so it remained valuable for the information potential that it held.^[2]

See also

• Double Ditch Earth Lodge Village Site (32BL8)

Further reading

• Wood, W. Raymond. "Notes on a Burned Earth Lodge at the Ward Site, North Dakota". Plains Anthropologist 8 (1957): 41–42.