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The Grave Creek Mound in the Ohio River Valley in West Virginia is one of the largest conical-type burial mounds in the United States, now standing 62 feet (19 m) high and 240 feet (73 m) in diameter. [3] The builders of the site, members of the Adena culture, moved more than 60,000 tons of dirt to create it about 250–150 BC.
Located in a city park at 900 Mound Avenue, it is an Ohio historical site and serves as a popular attraction and picnic destination for area families. The modern addition of stone-masonry steps allows visitors to climb to the top of the mound. Mound Cemetery (Marietta, Ohio) Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio is an historic cemetery developed ...
First settled in 1771 by James and Samuel Tomlinson of England and originally known as Grave Creek, it was named for the more than 2,000-year-old Adena burial mound still in existence. Moundsville ...
Here's a list of sites to learn more about Native American culture in the Buckeye State. It's Native American Heritage Month. Check out these heritage sites around Ohio
The Beam Farm Woodland Archaeological District is a group of archaeological sites in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio.Located at 3983 Stone Road near the village of Sabina in Clinton County, [2] the district is composed of one Native American mound and two other archaeological sites spread out over an area of 2 acres (0.81 ha). [1]
The site was one of the largest earthwork ceremonial centers constructed by the Hopewell and is located at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, in present-day Ohio. The majority of the mound complex site is now covered by the city of Portsmouth in Scioto County, Ohio . [ 2 ]
The Grave Creek Stone is a small sandstone disk inscribed on one side with some twenty-five characters, purportedly discovered in 1838 at Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville, West Virginia. If genuine, it could provide evidence of Pre-Columbian writing, but the discovery that the characters can be found in a 1752 book suggests that it is probably ...
Delf Norona (April 14, 1895 – April 12, 1974) of West Virginia, was an archaeologist, historian, and student of philately who wrote on subjects of Mound Builders, in particular the Grave Creek Mound of West Virginia, and postal history, including postal history of the state of West Virginia. [1]