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<< Our Photo Pages >> Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by GratefulDood on Friday, 27 July 2012  Page Views: 4780

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound Alternative Name: Flag Spring Cemetery Mound, Mound no.9 Group C
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 8.622 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
 Nearest Village: Newtown, Ohio
Latitude: 39.127250N  Longitude: 84.355694W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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
0No data.
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
0no data
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Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound
Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound submitted by GratefulDood : Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound (viewed from the south) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in Hamilton County, Ohio.
The Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound is a Adena culture mound in southwest Ohio, east of Cincinnati. The mound is located in the village of Newtown, Ohio, sited on the flood plain of the Little Miami River.

The mound is an oval approximately 110 feet (34 m) long and 90 feet (27 m) wide; its height is 11.3 feet (3.4 m).

The mound is one of the few remnants of what was once a large complex of prehistoric earthworks and other archaeological sites. There are reports of perhaps a dozen other much smaller mounds (4ft high, 10 ft wide) within a three or four mile radius from the Cemetery. Most of these minor mounds are on private property and are not well-documented.

While multiple village sites are still in existence around Newtown, including the Perin Village Site just 0.3 miles (0.5 km) to the northwest, many of the earthworks have been destroyed.

Because of its location in a cemetery, the Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound has been spared destruction; although a few graves have been dug around the mound, there has been no significant damage done as a result.

A smaller mound, known as the "Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound 2," is located within the same cemetery; it is only a small fraction of the larger mound's size.

This mound has been damaged by the digging of six graves into its side; however, no artifacts are known to have been found during the interment process.

For many years, the Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound has been a landmark in the community. In 1943, a survey of Newtown performed by the Federal Writers' Project highlighted it and noted that it was "the only mound distinctly visible" in the vicinity of the village. Thirty years later, the mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its potential to become an archaeological site, with a suspected Period of Significance of 500-999 BC, 499-0 BC, 499-0 AD, 1000-1499 BC.

Sources include:
Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley, S. Woodward and J. McDonald, 2002.
Federal Writers Project. Cincinnati: a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors. Cincinnati: Wiesen-Hart, 1943, 481.
Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places, Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999.
National Register of Historic Places, Record #73001474, Period of Significance: 500-999 BC, 499-0 BC, 499-0 AD, 1000-1499 BC.
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Re: Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound by bat400 on Friday, 27 July 2012
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GratefulDood writes: I live maybe 100 ft from this mound in a townhouse development adjacent to the cemetery, so this mound has become quite an interest of mine. The Perin Village Site is literally a nice natural bunker complex between two of the fairways at the golf course across the street from my house.
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