Lying at the confluence of the DuPage and Des Plaines River on Front Street in Channahon are two Native American prehistoric burial mounds and a village site owned by the Illinois State Museum Society.

In 1989, the District received a donation of 38 acres of wooded floodplain associated with the site along both rivers. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources also owns portions of the Des Plaines River shoreline in this area and at the nearby Illinois and Michigan Canal State Park on the DuPage River.

Photograph Courtesy of Ron Molk