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Upper Falls in the Old Man's Cave gorge, Hocking Hills, with visitors on the rocks

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Old Man's Cave, Hocking Hills · Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0

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01Old Man's CaveHocking Hills · SoutheastA gorge of waterfalls and recess caves where a hermit is said to have lived, with the park's visitor center. 02Great Serpent MoundAdams County · SouthwestA gigantic earthen snake on a hilltop over Ohio Brush Creek, built by a people whose name is still argued over. 03Brandywine FallsCuyahoga Valley · NortheastThe tallest waterfall in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, reached by an easy boardwalk with an accessible upper overlook. 04Marblehead LighthouseMarblehead · Lake ErieThe oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the Great Lakes, lit since 1821, on nine acres of limestone shoreline. 05Zoar VillageTuscarawas County · EasternA well-preserved communal village founded by German separatists in 1817, on the Ohio & Erie Canal. 06Longaberger Basket BuildingNewark · CentralA seven-story office building shaped like a picnic basket, with handles that are heated in winter.

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Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound

Newtown · Hamilton County · Southwest Ohio
A mound a cemetery accidentally saved
National Register of Historic PlacesIn a cemetery
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A big Adena mound saved because it happened to be in a cemetery.

Size
An oval about 110 feet long, 90 feet wide and 11.3 feet high
Setting
Inside Odd Fellows' Cemetery on Round Bottom Road in Newtown
Context
One of the few remnants of a large complex of earthworks and village sites around Newtown
Second mound
A much smaller mound in the same cemetery had six graves dug into its side
Neighbors
The Perin Village Site, about 0.3 mile northwest, and the large Turner Earthworks
Listed
National Register of Historic Places, 1973

The story

In the village of Newtown, on the east side of Cincinnati, the Odd Fellows' Cemetery holds an Adena mound about 110 feet long, 90 feet wide and 11.3 feet high. It is one of the few remnants of a large complex of prehistoric earthworks and villages around Newtown, and most of the others have been destroyed. Its location in a cemetery spared it, since only a few graves have been dug around it, without significant damage. A much smaller mound in the same cemetery was damaged when six graves were dug into its side. The Perin Village Site, believed to have been a Hopewell village, lies about 0.3 mile northwest.

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The Mound the Cemetery Saved

Newtown was once ringed with earthworks. Then came roads, farms and suburbs, and one by one the mounds went. This one survived because someone decided to bury their dead beside it, and a cemetery is one of the few places in a growing city where the ground is left alone.

A second, smaller mound in the same cemetery was not so lucky.

Behind the legend

The preservation is documented in the National Register description. It is a strange chapter: the cemetery protected the older burial place, and also damaged the smaller mound by digging graves into it. The Perin Village Site nearby is now a golf course.

If you go

Visit respectfully, and look at the two mounds before you leave.

Visiting

Status
In a public cemetery
Managed by
Odd Fellows' Cemetery
Hours
Located in the cemetery along Round Bottom Road. Visit respectfully during daylight hours.
Please note
This is an active cemetery. Stay off the mound and the graves.
Address
3541 Round Bottom Rd, Newtown, OH 45244
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East Fork State Park
About 17 miles · A huge lake park with a 46-mile backpack trail.
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