When you arrive at the threshold of Mound City in
Chillicothe, the view before you is, as its name suggests, reminiscent of a
cityscape…CLICK LINK TO READ MORE…
Mound City is a set of at least 25 burial mounds surrounded
by a roughly rectangular earthen embankment. Located in Chillicothe, it is one
of the most spectacular sites of the Hopewell culture, circa 100 B.C. to A.D.
400, and is the main attraction of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park…CLICK
LINK TO READ MORE…
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2820 - Ohio History
About 1.8 Million years ago the warm climate of the Cenozoic Era cooled sufficiently for large Continental glaciers to begin to accumulate in far northern latitudes. As the ice built to a great thickness it began to slowly flow outward and into the northern United States, including two thirds of Ohio...CLICK LINK TO READ MORE...