Description: This photograph is a view of mounds at Mound City. The Mound City Group is a large Hopewell culture (100 BC -- AD 500) ceremonial center located along the Scioto River in Ross County. It consists of 24 burial mounds framed by a large earthen enclosure shaped like a square with rounded corners. The enclosure is 2,050 feet across and the walls are about three feet high. Mound City is one of the earliest major centers of the Hopewell culture. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08565
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Mounds--Ohio--Ross County; Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio; Mound City Group National Monument (Ohio)
Places: Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a close view of mounds at the Mound City Group. The Mound City Group is a large Hopewell culture ceremonial center found along the Scioto River in Ross County. The entire group consists of 24 burial mounds surrounded by a large earthen enclosure that is square-shaped with rounded corners. Several mounds were excavated in the 1800s. In the 1920s William C. Mills and Henry C. Shetrone of the Ohio Historical Society excavated several more mounds. Mound City is one of the earliest major centers of the Hopewell culture and was declared a National Monument in 1923. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08569
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Mounds--Ohio--Ross County; Mound City Group National Monument (Ohio)
Places: Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a view of mounds at Mound City. The Mound City Group is a large Hopewell culture ceremonial center found along the Scioto River in Ross County. The Mound City Group consists of 24 burial mounds surrounded by an earthen enclosure. The enclosure is square-shaped with rounded corners. Several mounds of the group were excavated in the 1800s. In the 1920s William C. Mills and Henry C. Shetrone of the Ohio Historical society also excavated several mounds. Mound City is one of the earliest major centers of the Hopewell culture, and in 1923 it was declared a National Monument. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08570
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Mounds--Ohio--Ross County; Mound City Group National Monument (Ohio)
Places: Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a distant view of mounds at The Mound City Group. The Mound City Group is a large Hopewell culture ceremonial center found along the Scioto River in Ross County. This is one of the earliest major centers of the Hopewell culture. The Mound City Group consists of 24 burial mounds that are surrounded by an earthen enclosure. The enclosure is square-shaped with rounded corners. Several mounds were excavated in the 1800s. In the 1920s, William C. Mills and Henry C. Shetrone of the Ohio Historical Society excavated several other mounds. In 1923, Mound City was declared a National Monument. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08571
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Mounds--Ohio--Ross County; Mound City Group National Monument (Ohio)
Places: Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Eight graders listen to a guide on a visit to Mound City, November 3, 1976. The image was submitted by photographer Joyce A. Foster of Portsmouth, Ohio, in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. Mound City is a burial mound and earthwork complex located on the west bank of the Scioto River opposite the Hopeton Earthworks, a few miles north of Chillicothe. The site was constructed between approximately 100 BC and AD 400 by people of the Hopewell Culture and consists of 22 variously sized mounds surrounded a low, four-sided, earthen embankment that encloses about 13 acres. Since 1992 Mound City has served as the focal point of the Hopewell Culture National Historic Park. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B02F63_01_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Students; Mound City Group National Monument (Ohio); Mounds (Burials); Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400); National parks & reserves;
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)