Description: Downtown Peebles, Ohio. Platted in 1881 by Isaiah Custer at the junction of Zane's Trace (1796-97) and the Cincinnati and Eastern Railway (1881). Incorporated 1886. Named after John G. Peebles, Portsmouth, Ohio, businessman. David Nixon constructed the first house in town, operated for many years as the Nixon Hotel. Annual chautauquas were conducted on grounds south of the railroad beginning in 1906 and continuing through 1917. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06798
Subjects: Villages; Adams County (Ohio); Zane's Trace (Ohio); Historic buildings--Ohio
Places: Peebles (Ohio); Adams County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: The Serpent Mound is a giant effigy near Peebles, Ohio. The uncoiling serpent mound near Peebles, Ohio is about 1,330 feet long and 3 feet high. It is the longest surviving example of a prehistoric effigy mound. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06594
Subjects: Mounds--Ohio--Adams County; American Indians in Ohio; Great Serpent Mound (Ohio); National Register of Historic Places
Places: Peebles (Ohio); Adams County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows an aerial view of the Serpent Mound in Peebles, Ohio. Located atop a plateau overlooking the Brush Creek Valley in Adams County, Serpent Mound is the largest surviving example of a prehistoric effigy mound in the world. The head of the serpent is aligned to the summer solstice sunset and its three coils also may point to the sunrise on both the summer and winter solstices as well as the equinox sunrise. Over 1,300 feet long, its shape resembles an uncoiling serpent. Serpent Mound represents the peak of prehistoric effigy mound-building in the world and is part of a tradition of effigy mound building among some American Indian cultures of the present Eastern United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06448
Subjects: Mounds--Ohio--Adams County; American Indians in Ohio; Great Serpent Mound (Ohio)
Places: Peebles (Ohio); Adams County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Serpent Mound is a giant effigy near Peebles, Ohio. At about 1,330 feet long and 3 feet high, it is the longest surviving example of a prehistoric effigy mound. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06592
Subjects: Mounds--Ohio--Adams County; American Indians in Ohio; Great Serpent Mound (Ohio); National Register of Historic Places
Places: Peebles (Ohio); Adams County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Serpent Mound, containing three parts, extends approximately 1,370 feet ((420m) and varies in height from less than a foot to three feet. It conforms to the land where it rests with its head approaching a cliff above a stream and its body winds back and forth over eight hundred feet with seven coils. It's tail ends in a triple coil. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Oct 15, 1966. The serpent has an open mouth extending around the east of a 120 foot-long hollow oval feature. Some scholars theory is that the oval feature is an egg, the sun, the body of a frog, or the remnant of a platform. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_013
Subjects: Serpent Mound State Memorial (Ohio); Fort Ancient Culture (A.D. 1000–1650)
Places: Peebles (Ohio); Adams County (Ohio)
 

Description: A postcard from the Adams County Mineral Springs. This postcard shows people riding in a wagon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06864
Subjects: Adams County (Ohio); Minerals;
Places: Peebles (Ohio); Adams County (Ohio)
 

Description: Serpent Mound is a spectacular effigy earthwork of a serpent uncoiling along a prominent ridgetop in northern Adams County, Ohio. Excavations between 1887 and 1889 by Frederic Putnam, of Harvard University's Peabody Museum, revealed the structure of the earthwork, but Putnam did not find any artifacts that revealed the age or cultural affiliation of the mound. Until recently, archaeologists assumed that Serpent Mound was built by the Adena culture (800 B.C. to 100 A.D.) since two Adena burial mounds are located nearby. Yet Putnam also discovered traces of a village of the Fort Ancient culture (1000 A.D. to 1650 A.D.) near the Serpent. Excavations conducted in 1991 recovered charcoal that returned radiocarbon dates suggesting that the Fort Ancient people built the mound between about 1025 A.D. and 1215 A.D.. Frederic Putnam saved Serpent Mound from destruction. On his urging, funds were raised for Harvard University to purchase the site. Later, the ownership was transferred to the Ohio Historical Society, and Serpent Mound is now recognized as a National Historic Landmark. Archaeologists E.G. Squier and E.H. Davis, with the help of surveyor and geologist Charles Whittlesey, systematically documented the Indian works and compiled them into an 1847 book called "Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley: Comprising the results of extensive original surveys and explorations." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08639
Subjects: Mounds--Ohio River Valley; American Indians--Archaeology; Ohio River Valley--Antiquities; Earthworks (Archaeology); Adena Culture (800 B.C.–A.D. 100); Fort Ancient Culture (A.D. 1000–1650)
Places: Peebles (Ohio); Adams County (Ohio)
 

Description: James S. Peebles identification photograph from the files of the Republic Steel Corporation, Central Alloy District. The Central Alloy District consisted of two plants: one in Canton, Ohio, and one in Massillon, Ohio. Identification photographs were taken over a period of time and logged into the files as one batch on June 3, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F073_02
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio