Riverside City History
Ancient Times

The tens of thousands (if not millions) of stone and bone artifacts found within and surrounding what we now call the City of Riverside provide evidence that the area has been traversed and settled by Native Americans for thousands of years.

Around 4000-5000 BC, in what are termed the Middle and Late Archaic Periods, the Nebo Hill People lived on the bluffs that flank the Missouri River, fishing with bone hooks and hunting deer, birds and rabbits.

Circa 1000 BC the Black Sand Culture of Early Woodland Period, known for their distinctive incised pottery, settled the Line Creek Valley. The so-called Hopewell culture built the largest Mound Builder community west of the Mississippi in the Line Creek area around 300 BC.

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