The U.S. Corps of Engineers have delayed repairing the levee that was breached. The levee was being repositioned further from the river. An archaeological survey found artifacts where the new levee is to be located. The artifacts could be anywhere from 100 to 10,000 years old.
Just north of Oakville are the Toolesboro Mounds which possibly contain the largest Hopewell era mound in Iowa. The area close to Oakville was reputed to be the location where the Indian warrior Black Hawk met with Chief Keokuk before the Black Hawk War in which Abraham Lincoln took part. There are several mound locations found on the bluffs south of Oakville along Highway 99, along with Chief Taimah's (Tama) grave site just north of Burlington.
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