Mounds of the Ohio Area
All pictures were taken by Joseph C. Shaffer of Harrison Ohio, and are accordingly his property. If you would like to use any of these pictures, contact
Joe.
The first five pictures are of Mound City in Chillcothe, Ohio. This is my personal favorite site to visit. They're building a very nice visitor center, and the museum wasn't quite finished when Joe and I came, but it's still impressive. A must for anyone who finds these facinating. Most of the mounds are rebulit, as Camp Sherman once occupied the area, but thanks to E.G. Squire and E.H. Davis M.D. who drew detailed surveys of the site, as well as many other earthworks in Ohio, it lives again as it once was. Again, it is very impressive, and make it a point to walk through it near sunset. You won't be disapointed.
WARNING: A lot of these pictures use my height as a guide. Keep in mind that I'm 5'4".
WARNING:

The Pictures are kinda large, so please, be calm.
OK, this place is called the Mound City Necropolis - Or a city of dead. It's not the actual case, as only one of the mounds had ever held a body. They used to have the mound - the long one you see behind the sign - hollowed out so that you could see the burial and the presentation, but I think people, mostly the Native Americans, complained about it and now he's back in the soil. Anyway, they found several pipes, and some beautiful mica stone work. This is the starting place of your jouney into the unknown world of Mound City.
Here's a look at the grounds from just behind the above sign. As you can see, it's a HUGE place! So many beautiful things are here though. It may seem like a small place, but in relaity, nothing can quite compair.

If you look clsoe enough, you can see the ditch they dug out to create the low rise of 'fort wall' mounds.

The long mound you see behind the tall conical one is where that one Hopewell was burried.
This is one of  the larger mounds in this complex. As you can see, it's heavily wooded around here, and the Scioto (Pronounced Sigh-oh-t/dah) River is to my left in the picture I believe.

It's pretty impressive, there's mounds all around where I was standing.