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Adena (/ ə ˈ d iː n ə / ə-DEEN-ə [5]) is a village in southwestern Jefferson and southeastern Harrison counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 664 at the 2020 census . It is part of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area .
Originally, it was 25 feet (7.6 m) tall and 125 feet (38 m) in diameter. It is similar in size to the Adena Mound and it is located in Ross County, Ohio about one mile southeast of the Adena State Memorial. Wamsley Village Burial Mounds: Located in Wamsley Village, Ohio in Adams County, Ohio.
The Adena culture was named for the large mound on Thomas Worthington's early 19th-century estate located near Chillicothe, Ohio, [4] which he named "Adena".. The culture is the most prominently known of a number of similar cultures in eastern North America that began mound building ceremonialism at the end of the Archaic period.
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The Zaleski Mound Group is a collection of three burial mounds in the village of Zaleski, Ohio, United States. Built by people of the prehistoric Adena culture, these earthworks are valuable archaeological sites.
The Adena mound, the type site for the Adena culture of prehistoric mound builders, is a registered historic structure, on the grounds of the Adena Mansion for which it is named, near Chillicothe, Ohio. It was listed in the National Register on June 5, 1975. [1]
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Part of the village of Adena, in the southwest; Part of the village of Dillonvale, in the southeast; The village of Smithfield, in the northeast; The unincorporated community of Greentown, in the east; The unincorporated community of Piney Fork, in the center