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The site is preserved as a state park by the Ohio Historical Society. Oak Mounds: Outside Clarksburg, West Virginia, in Harrison County, a large Indian mound; to the west of it is a smaller mound. These mounds have never been totally excavated but they were probably built by the Hopewell culture between 0 and 1000 CE. Pharr Mounds
The Great Mound is a massive Native American mound in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio.Located in Section 19 of Madison Township in Butler County, it has a height of 43 feet (13 m) and a circumference of 511 feet (156 m).
A mound complex which includes mounds, a geometric enclosure and numerous habitation areas, it is the largest group of Middle Woodland mounds in the United States. The complex covers approximately 400 acres (1.6 km 2) and contains at least 30 mounds, 17 of which have been identified as being completely or partially constructed by prehistoric ...
1840s map of Mound City. From about 200 BC to AD 500, the Ohio River Valley was a central area of the prehistoric Hopewell culture. The term Hopewell (taken from the land owner who owned the land where one of the mound complexes was located) culture is applied to a broad network of beliefs and practices among different Native American peoples who inhabited a large portion of eastern North America.
Located within the Killen Station power generating plant, east of Wrightsville, Ohio in Adams County, Ohio. [5] Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [6] George Deffenbaugh Mound: Located northeast of Laurelville in Hocking County, Ohio. Enon Mound: Ohio's second largest conical burial mound, it is believed to have been ...
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The Portsmouth Earthworks are a large prehistoric mound complex constructed by the Native American Adena and Ohio Hopewell cultures of eastern North America (100 BCE to 500 CE). [2] 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 ...
Climbing the hill. Deep in the South Florida suburbs is a spacious public park built on the site of a former landfill. Where heaping mounds of trash once stood is now a towering, man-made hill.