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Site Activities: Self-Guided. Museum & Site Type: Ohio History Connection Site & American Indian Site. Visit Newark Earthworks, an architectural wonder of ancient America, the largest set of geometric earthen enclosures in the world.
While limited, the Newark Earthwork site is the largest surviving Hopewell earthwork complex in North America. The culture built many earthen mounds. Over decades, they built what is the single largest earthwork enclosure complex in the Ohio River Valley. The earthworks cover several square miles.
Seventeen centuries ago, Newark, Ohio, was a major center for a remarkable ancient culture. Here, American Indians built the largest geometric earthwork complex in the world. Enormous enclosures connected by walled roadways were spread across more than four square miles.
World Renowned Sacred Spaces - A Place for Reflection in the Past and Today. Nearly 2000 years ago, American Indians built dozens of monumental mounds and earthen enclosures in southern Ohio.
The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks nomination included the Octagon Earthworks in Newark and the Great Circle in Newark and Heath as part of eight large earthen enclosures built by ancient...
Heath, Ohio. Spanning an impressive 1,200-feet in diameter, the Great Circle stands as one of the most substantial circular earthworks in the Americas. Encircling the massive site is a five-foot-deep moat surrounded by eight-foot-high earthen walls.
The mission of the Newark Earthworks Center is to promote and support research and engagement by faculty, students, scholars, Indigenous peoples, and other stakeholders with an interest in the ancestral and contemporary Indigenous places, peoples, cultures and experiences within and around Ohio.
The Octagon Earthworks are part of the Newark Earthworks, the largest known set of earthworks that include circular, square, and octagonal enclosures. The mounds’ positions correspond to...
Since 2005, the Newark Earthworks Center has successfully initiated strategies to inform Ohio citizens about brilliant ancient Indigenous earthen architecture and contemporary American issues.
The OES visited the Newark Earthworks on June 11, 2001, and has since returned several times. These prehistoric Hopewell culture earthworks were once the largest set of geometric earthen enclosures in the world, encompassing more than four square miles.