Description: Circleville was founded in 1810 along the east side of the Scioto River. It derived it's name form the circular portions of a large Hopewell culture earthworks. The town was built on this earthwork, with a street layout in concentric circles. The court house was in the center and was octagonal. However, this plan was not satisfactory and in 1837 the Circleville Squaring Company was formed to convert it to a conventional grid. While no part of the earth work remains, a few of the buildings have retained the curved walls that were a part of the original plan. Circleville hosts an annual Pumpkin Festival in October. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F13_005_001
Subjects: Pickaway County (Ohio)
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Pickaway County Courthouse is located at 207 South Court Street in Circleville, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_061_001
Subjects: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio); Courthouses; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of material recovered at the Snake Den Mound Group. The Snake Den Mound Group is located in the uplands of Walnut Township, Pickaway County, Ohio, just west of East Ringold. The site’s peculiar name comes from the fact that in earlier times snakes in great numbers were known to hibernate there annually. When first explored by Warren Moorehead in the late 1890s, the site was described as a series of seven mounds containing extended and disarticulated skeletal remains, cremations and stone box burials. Some mounds were constructed from yellow clay and others from stone that included an odd assortment of boulders, spalls, fossils, concretions and burned rock. There was even what Moorehead described as a small concretion box recovered that contained a number of small native silver nuggets, still a unique find in Ohio archaeology. After early investigations the site remained fallow for more than a century, with the site’s last major disturbance being a pipeline constructed through the site in the 1960s. In recent years a local support group has taken a renewed interest in the site with an ongoing research and preservation initiative. The focus of archaeology at Snake Den is no longer toward the large scale excavations of the past but rather comprehensive program of remote sensing surveys utilizing a variety of specialized instruments. This has resulted in discoveries including a perimeter wall and ditch surrounding the mound group, rows of pits, post circles and other subsurface features not visible at the surface, demonstrating that the site is much more complex than ever imagined. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B04F03_E10_003
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mounds -- Ohio -- Pickaway County; Earthworks (Archaeology); Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio
Places: Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph taken during an excavation at the Snake Den Mound Group. The Snake Den Mound Group is located in the uplands of Walnut Township, Pickaway County, Ohio, just west of East Ringold. The site’s peculiar name comes from the fact that in earlier times snakes in great numbers were known to hibernate there annually. When first explored by Warren Moorehead in the late 1890s, the site was described as a series of seven mounds containing extended and disarticulated skeletal remains, cremations and stone box burials. Some mounds were constructed from yellow clay and others from stone that included an odd assortment of boulders, spalls, fossils, concretions and burned rock. There was even what Moorehead described as a small concretion box recovered that contained a number of small native silver nuggets, still a unique find in Ohio archaeology. After early investigations the site remained fallow for more than a century, with the site’s last major disturbance being a pipeline constructed through the site in the 1960s. In recent years a local support group has taken a renewed interest in the site with an ongoing research and preservation initiative. The focus of archaeology at Snake Den is no longer toward the large scale excavations of the past but rather comprehensive program of remote sensing surveys utilizing a variety of specialized instruments. This has resulted in discoveries including a perimeter wall and ditch surrounding the mound group, rows of pits, post circles and other subsurface features not visible at the surface, demonstrating that the site is much more complex than ever imagined. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B04F03_E10_002
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mounds -- Ohio -- Pickaway County; Earthworks (Archaeology); Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio
Places: Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph taken during an excavation at the Snake Den Mound Group. Pictured before the group is a large pile of stone concretions. The Snake Den Mound Group is located in the uplands of Walnut Township, Pickaway County, Ohio, just west of East Ringold. The site’s peculiar name comes from the fact that in earlier times snakes in great numbers were known to hibernate there annually. When first explored by Warren Moorehead in the late 1890s, the site was described as a series of seven mounds containing extended and disarticulated skeletal remains, cremations and stone box burials. Some mounds were constructed from yellow clay and others from stone that included an odd assortment of boulders, spalls, fossils, concretions and burned rock. There was even what Moorehead described as a small concretion box recovered that contained a number of small native silver nuggets, still a unique find in Ohio archaeology. After early investigations the site remained fallow for more than a century, with the site’s last major disturbance being a pipeline constructed through the site in the 1960s. In recent years a local support group has taken a renewed interest in the site with an ongoing research and preservation initiative. The focus of archaeology at Snake Den is no longer toward the large scale excavations of the past but rather comprehensive program of remote sensing surveys utilizing a variety of specialized instruments. This has resulted in discoveries including a perimeter wall and ditch surrounding the mound group, rows of pits, post circles and other subsurface features not visible at the surface, demonstrating that the site is much more complex than ever imagined. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B04F03_E10_001
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mounds -- Ohio -- Pickaway County; Earthworks (Archaeology); Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio
Places: Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Print illustrating West Main Street in Circleville, Ohio, published in the 1847 edition of "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03947
Subjects: Pickaway County (Ohio); Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; City and town life
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pageant contestants at the Circleville Pumpkin Show. The Pumkin Show's popularity was helped along by performer Ted Lewis, famous for his line "Is Everybody Happy?". Ted Lewis was a resident of Circleville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06878
Subjects: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio); Pumpkins
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Joseph Fissell from Circleville, Ohio who was the youngest Civil War soldier from Ohio to serve in the Union Army. He was eleven years old when he enlisted as a musician in the 45th Ohio Volunteer Infantry on August 1, 1862. Fissell served until 1865. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00772
Subjects: Pickaway County (Ohio); Ohio History--Military Ohio