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<< Our Photo Pages >> Enon Mound - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 03 December 2007  Page Views: 12931

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Enon Mound Alternative Name: Knob Prairie Mound, Prairie Knob, Adena Mound
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 55.65 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Springfield, OH  Nearest Village: Enon, OH
Latitude: 39.879200N  Longitude: 83.9316W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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stonetracker visited on 1st Apr 2021 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 5 One of the more accessible Adena mound sites in Ohio. You pretty much don't need to get out of the car to see it clearly. Good for disabled visitors.

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Enon mound
Enon mound submitted by bat400 : Enon Mound. The view from south of the mound. Photo - bat400, 2 Nov 2007. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in Clark County, Ohio
Approximately 30 – 35 feet high and 110 feet in diameter; owned by the village of Enon.

This mound has not been part of any modern excavation and there are many “legendary” stories about its history after modern settlement, including an excavation in the 1800’s that found a stone altar, and the George Rogers Clark used it as a lookout point during the French and Indian War.

[Information from Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley, Susan L Woodward and Jerry N McDonald. 2002, the McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg VA.]
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Enon Mound
Enon Mound submitted by AKFisher : Enon Mound in Enon, Ohio. It is 40-ft tall. In 1870-80 locals dug into it finding a large stone chamber at its base but it has never been professionally excavated. The locals carved their names into the rock and recovered the mound. [Wiki: Nyttend] Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Enon mound
Enon mound submitted by bat400 : Enon Mound. Vandalism may be unlikely with the Enon police department just a few hundred feet from the mound. Photo - bat400, 2 Nov 2007. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Enon mound
Enon mound submitted by bat400 : Enon Mound. In the early days of the village horse racing was held around the base of the mound. Now it's surrounded by a circle drive and modest homes. Photo - bat400, 2 Nov 2007. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Enon mound
Enon mound submitted by bat400 : Enon Mound. This view, taken from behind the local library, gives a better idea of the neighborhood that surrounds the mound. Photo - bat400, 2 Nov 2007. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Enon mound
Enon mound submitted by bat400 : Enon Mound. Photo - bat400, 2 Nov 2007. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Enon mound
Enon mound submitted by bat400 : Enon Mound. The view from west of the mound. Photo - bat400, 2 Nov 2007.

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Re: Enon Mound by stonetracker on Thursday, 26 January 2023
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Little to add here, as the mound site is virtually unchanged from the descriptions here as of my last visit in 2021. I have a blog post about it here:

https://stonestruct.blogspot.com/2022/12/mound-in-cul-de-sac-enon-oh.html?m=1 One correction to the blog post. Apparently this site was last excavated around 1800, but little verifiable info on what was found.
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The Adena mounds of the Ohio River Valley by Andy B on Saturday, 22 May 2010
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Article by Richard Thornton

http://www.examiner.com/x-40598-Architecture--Design-Examiner~y2010m3d10-Americas-architectural-heritage--the-Adena-mounds-of-the-Ohio-River-Valley
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Street View Enon Mound by bat400 on Friday, 09 April 2010
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Re: Enon Mound by Anonymous on Friday, 14 December 2007
The Mounds in the Americas are created by the Indigenous American population of the time. The Chahta, or Choctaw build mounds of this nature from the areas in the Northern Mississippi and Ohio Valleys to the southernmost Chacha-Poya or Chahta-Poya areas of Peru and Bolivia. These mounds tend to exist everywhere there is trade as well, all the way to the Eastern coasts of the North and Central Americas to the Western coasts of South America, and across the interior where the old lakes, rivers and bayous existed prior to the cataclysmic events of 22,000-18,000 years ago and beyond while the climate changed. The archaeological materials and the cultural traditional knowledge that has survived despite the massive genocide against indigenous Americans for the past 500 years indicate this is a part of a huge population that easily traversed the continents north to south. The other side of the Rockies show evidence of similar architectural works into the Pleistocene from the Quechua/Quechan speakers including but not limited to Incas, Kumeyaay and other tribal groups from Bolivia to Canada.

Nobody is extinct, they are just displaced from the invasions and genocides.

For more information you can contact Jim Hickinbotham, his name in Chahta is HLahantubbe, at Mississippian Culture Organization
admin@mississippianculture.org
Deb Huglin, Chief Archaeologist, MCO
Repatriation Archaeologist for the Wolf Clan of the Chahta
Nobody is extinct.
Nothing is lost.
The People have always lived on Turtle Island since Creation.

By the way, during the invasion period to contemporary times, the people of North America call the continent Turtle Island and the people of South America call it Parrot Island because they have traditional knowledge going back to the time when the land masses were separate...meaning before the tectonic plates moved enough for them to join. Trust local and indigenous traditional knowledge, there is a real reason for everything. Post-Secondary Presses put out masses of misinformation during the expansionist periods to attempt to displace more indigenous population. Try to check your sources and check their sources. There were no extinctions, nobody is extinct. There were genocidal war activities, but people and their traditional knowledge survived. It will take generations for the correct information to be available in print because much of it is still suppressed...but it is out there!

http://www.sandiego-art.org/finished_2columnL_content.php?conID=57
Deb as a curator with her Paleo-Kumeyaay diorama in progress at SDAI Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. Real museum quality American Indian historic dioramas and information are available by commission. A portion of the proceeds of commissions go to support MCO and SDAI.

Mississippian Culture Organization (MCO) preserves and restores traditional American knowledge. Support and acknowledgment is gratefully accepted.
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    Re: Enon Mound by Aluta on Saturday, 15 December 2007
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    Thank you for posting here. It is important for people to understand the point you make, that the structures in the Americas were made by the indigenous peoples and that many of those peoples are still here, in some cases hidden for many years and just now surfacing and ready to talk about at least some of their old traditions.

    There's resistance to this in many places as there is always resistance to change, but in the end we all gain by working together. Here at the Megalithic Portal, we welcome your pictures and information.
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    Re: Enon Mound by bat400 on Saturday, 15 December 2007
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    Ms. Huglin --

    Since your posting is general, and not specific to Enon Mound, I will posting in another spot on the Portal, so it may get a wider viewing.
    Welcome and please consider registering.
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    Re: Enon Mound by glen on Saturday, 15 December 2007
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    While i very much welcome the input of traditional peoples to this site, i'd like to see a wider debate on the subjects raised. Living folk-memory can be revealing and significant, but not accepted uncritically. Tribal peoples have sometimes been accused of suppressing the archaeological evidence in order to establish Land Rights. Land Rights are a legitimate aspiration for tribes but that is a political struggle, not a scientifc archaeological one. To quote: "The People have always lived on Turtle Island since Creation". Calling the inheritors of a folk-tradition "Indiginous Americans" is a moot point - the Bering land-bridge can no longer be regarded as the only access to the american continent available to ancient peoples.
    I think the current operation of European-derived ownership laws in America is not serving anyone justly. The apparent need for primacy of occupation invites the distortion of the archaeological record for legalistic ends, and may to some mistaken minds 'outlaw' evidence of ancient Polynesian or African or (shudder) European visitors, should any arise. (Remember the difficulty accepting the Viking finds in Newfoundland only a few decades ago.) The extent of 'BronzeAge' sea travel is now being reassessed.
    Any contribution is to be welcomed that opens debate, but does not close it. I'd like to see slogans avoided, and a recognition of how controversial American archaeology has become.
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    Re: Enon Mound by Aluta on Saturday, 15 December 2007
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    I don't doubt that indigenous peoples are a mix of races from many backgrounds. That doesn't change the fact that they are the indigenous peoples of the Americas and they still fall under the category of Indians, even with European and Polynesian blood if it's pre-1492.
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Re: Enon Mound by templar on Friday, 07 December 2007
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This look very much like the Norman Mottes that we find scattered around England and Wales. Simple fortified posts which would have compriosed a wooden pallisade on top of an earthern mound. Private message me if you want a piccy.
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