Description: An aerial view of Dawes Arboretum in Licking County. Dawes Arboretum is home to the gravesite of Benjamin Green and family, first settlers of in Licking County. Dawes Arboretum was founded in 1929 by Beman and Bertie Dawes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06886
Subjects: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio); Gardens--Ohio
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a horse-racing track in use on the site of the Newark Mound Group inside the earthworks. A horse can be seen rounding the curve of the track with bystanders looking on. The Newark Earthworks complex was located on a wide glacial terrace southwest of the original confluence of Raccoon Creek and the Licking River in Newark, Licking County, Ohio. It was constructed by people of the Hopewell Culture between approximately 100 BC and AD 400. When first surveyed in the 1840s, the earthworks covered an area of four square miles, making it perhaps the world’s single largest archaeological landscape outside Egypt’s Giza Plateau. Overall the complex seems to be a lexicon of Hopewell earthwork design with counterparts found elsewhere within the Hopewell sphere, particularly in the lower Scioto Valley. These forms include large and small circles, parallel walls, ovals, squares and octagons. Unfortunately as Newark’s city limits expanded in the late 19th century, much of the earthwork complex fell victim to development. Only the Great Circle, a 1200-foot circular embankment with an interior ditch, and the Octagon Earthworks, a conjoined circle and segmented octagon that functions as a precise lunar observatory, have managed to survive to present times. To note, neither of these earthworks survived out of a pure sense of preservation but rather as notable oddities on the landscape; the Great Circle as a 19th century fairgrounds/amusement park and the Octagon as a military training camp and presently as a golf course. Both sites are owned by the Ohio History Connection and are among seven Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Earthwork sites under consideration by the United States Department of the Interior for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B04F02_E05_001
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Mounds -- Ohio -- Licking County; Earthworks (Archaeology); Racetracks (Horse racing)--Ohio;
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the racetrack and stands on the grounds of the Newark Mound Group. The Newark Earthworks complex was located on a wide glacial terrace southwest of the original confluence of Raccoon Creek and the Licking River in Newark, Licking County, Ohio. It was constructed by people of the Hopewell Culture between approximately 100 BC and AD 400. When first surveyed in the 1840s, the earthworks covered an area of four square miles, making it perhaps the world’s single largest archaeological landscape outside Egypt’s Giza Plateau. Overall the complex seems to be a lexicon of Hopewell earthwork design with counterparts found elsewhere within the Hopewell sphere, particularly in the lower Scioto Valley. These forms include large and small circles, parallel walls, ovals, squares and octagons. Unfortunately as Newark’s city limits expanded in the late 19th century, much of the earthwork complex fell victim to development. Only the Great Circle, a 1200-foot circular embankment with an interior ditch, and the Octagon Earthworks, a conjoined circle and segmented octagon that functions as a precise lunar observatory, have managed to survive to present times. To note, neither of these earthworks survived out of a pure sense of preservation but rather as notable oddities on the landscape; the Great Circle as a 19th century fairgrounds/amusement park and the Octagon as a military training camp and presently as a golf course. Both sites are owned by the Ohio History Connection and are among seven Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Earthwork sites under consideration by the United States Department of the Interior for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B04F02_E06_008
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Mounds -- Ohio -- Licking County; Earthworks (Archaeology); Racetracks (Horse racing)--Ohio;
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of the Licking County Courthouse in Newark, Ohio. It was built in 1876 after a fire destroyed the former courthouse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_032_01
Subjects: Licking County (Ohio); Newark (Ohio); Courthouses; Government buildings
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated to the 1920s or 1930s, this lantern slide shows the large circular enclosure at the Octagon Earthworks in Licking County, Ohio. It was taken from the Observatory Mound looking southeast. The Newark Earthworks complex was located on a wide glacial terrace southwest of the original confluence of Raccoon Creek and the Licking River in Newark, Licking County, Ohio. It was constructed by people of the Hopewell Culture between approximately 100 BC and AD 400. When first surveyed in the 1840s, the earthworks covered an area of four square miles, making it perhaps the world’s single largest archaeological landscape outside Egypt’s Giza Plateau. Overall the complex seems to be a lexicon of Hopewell earthwork design with counterparts found elsewhere within the Hopewell sphere, particularly in the lower Scioto Valley. These forms include large and small circles, parallel walls, ovals, squares and octagons. Unfortunately as Newark’s city limits expanded in the late 19th century, much of the earthwork complex fell victim to development. Only the Great Circle, a 1200-foot circular embankment with an interior ditch, and the Octagon Earthworks, a conjoined circle and segmented octagon that functions as a precise lunar observatory, have managed to survive to present times. To note, neither of these earthworks survived out of a pure sense of preservation but rather as notable oddities on the landscape; the Great Circle as a 19th century fairgrounds/amusement park and the Octagon as a military training camp and presently as a golf course. Both sites are owned by the Ohio History Connection and are among seven Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Earthwork sites under consideration by the United States Department of the Interior for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV144_B01_01
Subjects: Mounds--Ohio; American Indians--Archaeology; American Indians in Ohio; Newark (Ohio); Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1-400)
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Beard-Green Cemetery in the Dawes Arboretum, including the Ohio Historical Marker and tombstones. The Ohio Historical Marker reads as follows: "Spring, 1800, Benjamin Green and family become the first legal settlers in Licking County, followed by the Stadden family; Col. John Stadden marries Elizabeth Green on Christmas Day. Spring, 1801, clearings cut for cabins on Hog Run; Johnny Appleseed plants his orchards. 1808, John Beard family settles. 1810, first burial. 1811-41, these families bury six Revolutionary War veterans." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06862
Subjects: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio); Gardens--Ohio
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Built in 1924, Swasey Chapel on the Denison University Campus was the first building in the 1917 plan for Greater Denison. The chapel was named after Cleveland trustee and amateur astronomer Dr. Ambrose Swasey, founder of the Warner and Swasey Company. The chimes in the chapel tower are a memorial for Swasey’s wife. Today the chapel is used for religious services. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F02_010_1
Subjects: Granville (Ohio). Denison University; Licking County (Ohio);
Places: Granville (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Beard-Green Cemetery in the Dawes Arboretum, including the Ohio Historical Marker and tombstones. The Ohio Historical Society marker reads as follows: "Spring, 1800, Benjamin Green and family become the first legal settlers in Licking County, followed by the Stadden family; Col. John Stadden marries Elizabeth Green on Christmas Day. Spring, 1801, clearings cut for cabins on Hog Run; Johnny Appleseed plants his orchards. 1808, John Beard family settles. 1810, first burial. 1811-41, these families bury six Revolutionary War veterans." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06863
Subjects: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio); Gardens--Ohio
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Aerial view of the Ohio State Fairgrounds, 1854. The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. The first fair was held in 1850, and after moving to various locations around the state for several decades, the event settled at its permanent location at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus in 1886. From September 19 through 22, 1854, the fair was held at Newark's Great Circle Mound (now known as Moundbuilders Park). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04155
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Newark, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Mounds--Ohio--Licking County
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption reads: "Class, - Industry, Indent. - Fiberglass products, Location - Newark." This photograph shows several items of fiberglass from the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Company in Newark, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F10_026_1
Subjects: Industry; Fiberglass; Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Copper ornaments recovered from the Eagle Mound group of the Newark Earthworks. The Newark Earthworks complex was located on a wide glacial terrace southwest of the original confluence of Raccoon Creek and the Licking River in Newark, Licking County, Ohio. It was constructed by people of the Hopewell Culture between approximately 100 BC and AD 400. When first surveyed in the 1840s, the earthworks covered an area of four square miles, making it perhaps the world’s single largest archaeological landscape outside Egypt’s Giza Plateau. Overall the complex seems to be a lexicon of Hopewell earthwork design with counterparts found elsewhere within the Hopewell sphere, particularly in the lower Scioto Valley. These forms include large and small circles, parallel walls, ovals, squares and octagons. Unfortunately as Newark’s city limits expanded in the late 19th century, much of the earthwork complex fell victim to development. Only the Great Circle, a 1200-foot circular embankment with an interior ditch, and the Octagon Earthworks, a conjoined circle and segmented octagon that functions as a precise lunar observatory, have managed to survive to present times. To note, neither of these earthworks survived out of a pure sense of preservation but rather as notable oddities on the landscape; the Great Circle as a 19th century fairgrounds/amusement park and the Octagon as a military training camp and presently as a golf course. Both sites are owned by the Ohio History Connection and are among seven Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Earthwork sites under consideration by the United States Department of the Interior for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B04F02_E05_008
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mounds -- Ohio -- Licking County; Earthworks (Archaeology); Artifacts;
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a building and gate at the Newark Mound Group. The Newark Earthworks complex was located on a wide glacial terrace southwest of the original confluence of Raccoon Creek and the Licking River in Newark, Licking County, Ohio. It was constructed by people of the Hopewell Culture between approximately 100 BC and AD 400. When first surveyed in the 1840s, the earthworks covered an area of four square miles, making it perhaps the world’s single largest archaeological landscape outside Egypt’s Giza Plateau. Overall the complex seems to be a lexicon of Hopewell earthwork design with counterparts found elsewhere within the Hopewell sphere, particularly in the lower Scioto Valley. These forms include large and small circles, parallel walls, ovals, squares and octagons. Unfortunately as Newark’s city limits expanded in the late 19th century, much of the earthwork complex fell victim to development. Only the Great Circle, a 1200-foot circular embankment with an interior ditch, and the Octagon Earthworks, a conjoined circle and segmented octagon that functions as a precise lunar observatory, have managed to survive to present times. To note, neither of these earthworks survived out of a pure sense of preservation but rather as notable oddities on the landscape; the Great Circle as a 19th century fairgrounds/amusement park and the Octagon as a military training camp and presently as a golf course. Both sites are owned by the Ohio History Connection and are among seven Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Earthwork sites under consideration by the United States Department of the Interior for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B04F02_E05_009
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Mounds -- Ohio -- Licking County; Earthworks (Archaeology);
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)