Description: Approximately 444 shell beads are disk-shaped and of differing sizes. They are mostly yellow in color with some areas of very pale brown. Items were excavated from Cowan Creek Mound in Vernon Township, Clinton County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07394
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Adena Culture (800 B.C.–A.D. 100); American Indian history and society
Places: Vernon Township (Ohio); Clinton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ceramic rimsherd is an example of Adena Plain pottery. It was part of a fairly large jar with a slightly outward bending rim and a flat lip. The surface is plain with no decoration. It is very pale brown and dark gray in color. Item was excavated from Cowan Creek Mound in Vernon Township, Clinton County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07395
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Adena Culture (800 B.C.–A.D. 100); American Indian history and society; Pottery
Places: Vernon Township (Ohio); Clinton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Harding Memorial is the burial location of President Warren G. Harding and First Lady Florence Kling Harding and is located in Marion, Ohio at the southeast corner of Vernon Heights Boulevard and Delaware Avenue. Begun in 1926 and finished in the early winter of 1927, the structure is built of white marble. Designed by Henry Hornbostel, Eric Fisher Wood and Edward Mellon, the structure is 103' in diameter and 53' in height. The open design honors the Hardings’ wishes that they be buried outside. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F04_033_001
Subjects: Marion, O. Harding memorial
Places: Marion Township (Ohio); Hancock County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph taken during the excavation of Seip Mound in Ross County, Ohio. Reverse reads, "Visitors, Seip Mound No. 1 Ross Co., O. 1. Vernon Kinietz 2. Robert Goslin 3. Al Spetnagel 4. Frank Hibben 5. HC Shetrone." Seip Mound, sometimes referred to as the Seip-Pricer Mound, is located in Paxton Township, Ross County, Ohio. It was constructed between 100 BC and AD 400 by people of the Hopewell Culture and situated at the center of Seip Earthworks, an extensive earthwork complex occupying more than 150 acres along Paint Creek in southwest Ross County. There was also a large three-part burial mound associated with the earthworks later referred to as the Seip Conjoined Mound to avoid confusion. When first surveyed, Seip Mound measured 240’ x 130’ x 30’ and counted as one of the four or five largest Hopewell burial mounds ever built. Between 1925 and 1928 Henry Shetrone of the Ohio History Connection conducted excavations at Seip Mound, recovering over 100 burials and numerous funerary and other objects made of exotic materials. Shetrone also recovered series of “Great Pipes” that were uncharacteristic of Hopewell themes and designs and likely of southern origin. This strongly suggests at least cultural ties to contemporary groups below the Ohio River. During the 1970s investigations within the earthworks uncovered possible workshop and domestic locations indicating that overall the site was much more complex than first imagined. Originally a property of the Ohio History Connection, both Seip Mound and the associated earthworks are presently overseen by the National Park Service as part of the Hopewell Culture National Historic Park. It is also one of seven Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Earthwork sites presently under consideration for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site by the United States Department of the Interior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B04F03e01_08_0001
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Seip Mound (Ross County, Ohio); Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio
Places: Ross County (Ohio)