Younge Site

Younge Site (20LP3)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Michigan State Historic Site
Location of Goodland Township, Michigan
Location	Address Restricted Goodland Township, Michigan
Coordinates
NRHP Reference #	76002161
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 29, 1976
Designated MSHS	October 29, 1971

The Younge Site is an archeological site located within the vicinity of Goodland Township in Lapeer County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site on October 29, 1971 and later added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1976.

With a restricted address, the Younge Site is a pre-Columbian era site located in the east-central part of Lapeer County. There were no European objects discovered on the site, but there are two wooden structures and a burial site presumed to belong to Native Americans around the same time the Europeans arrived in the area in the seventeenth-century. Archaeologists discovered unusual burying practices in the exhumed remains, including the drilling of the skulls prior to being buried. The leg bones were also modified to support the body when suspended from a pole in an ossuary, which was observed—although not firsthand—in the accounts of the earliest European settlers.