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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.
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park: Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, formerly known as Mound City Group National Monument, is a United States national historical park with earthworks and burial mounds from the Hopewell culture, indigenous peoples who flourished from about 200 BCE to 500 CE. The park is composed of six separate ...
Owned and managed by the National Park Service as a part of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park: 1689-007 Seip Earthworks: Bainbridge, Ohio: Large mound 25 ft (7.6 m) in height surrounded by a complex of two circular and one square enclosures.
The events at Fort Ancient and Hopewell Culture National Historical Park will begin at 3 p.m. Sept. 19. Observances at Fort Ancient also will continue for the next two days, Sept. 20-21.
The Hopewell Culture National Historical Park is a historical park with earthworks and mounds made by the people of the Hopewell tradition dating as far back as 200 BC.
The Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, encompassing mounds for which the culture is named, is in the Paint Creek Valley just a few miles from Chillicothe, Ohio. Other earthworks in the Chillicothe area include Hopeton , Mound City , Seip Earthworks and Dill Mounds District , High Banks Works , Liberty, Cedar-Bank Works , Anderson ...
And so, the Ohio Hopewell collection was purchased by the owner of a private museum in England for $10,000 and sent across the sea. ... The Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Chillicothe ...
A designated National Historic Landmark, in 2006 the Newark Earthworks was also designated as the "official prehistoric monument of the State of Ohio." [ 2 ] This is part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks , one of 14 sites nominated in January 2008 by the U.S. Department of the Interior for potential submission by the United States to the ...