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[2] The main village site is located on the relatively flat top of a hill roughly about 1,240 feet (380 m) above sea level. The site is estimated to encompass 2-3 acres. The site during its occupation overlooked a roughly-hewn hunting trail, later used as the outline of the first roads and eventually becoming National Road.
Located on both sides of the Indiana/Ohio border, [2] the historic district is composed of five contributing properties spread out across 8 acres (3.2 ha) of land. [1] It is believed to have been the site of a village of the Fort Ancient culture of prehistoric Native Americans.
This log cabin was built in 1805 by Zachariah Price Dewitt and Elizabeth Dewitt and is the oldest extant structure in the Oxford Township of Butler County, Ohio.It is the only remaining home of the several built by pioneers along the Four-Mile Creek, just east of what is now the Miami University campus.
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This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Ohio, in the United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to Archaeological sites in Ohio . Subcategories
The Paleo Crossing site, one of the oldest sites in Ohio, had two [5] or three [6] post holes and refuse pits that contained charcoal. From radiocarbon dating, the site was used 10,980 BP ± 75 yearsBefore Present [ 5 ] or about 9,000 B.C. [ 6 ] The post holes and an area about 150 square feet indicate that there was a structure at the site.
The Big Muskie was a model 4250-W dragline and was the only one ever built by the Bucyrus-Erie company. [1] With a 220-cubic-yard (170 m 3) bucket, it was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines alongside the Illinois-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket wheel excavators of the ...
The dwellings and site plan of the 3-acre (1.2 ha) site are based on lengthy archeological excavations sponsored by the Dayton Society of Natural History, which owns and operates the site as an open-air museum. Because of its archaeological value, the site was listed in 1974 on the National Register of Historic Places.