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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBV4_the-observatory-mound_Newark-OH.html
The form of this mound is unique among all the known Hopewellian mounds. Some 19th century archaeologists thought that the builders had planned to extend a set of parallel walls from the circle, bu thene changed their minds and blocked off the stu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBFZ_octagon-earthworks_Newark-OH.html
A Wonder of the World
These walls were once the center of an ancient civilization. The Octagon Earthworks, like a modern cathedral or county fairgrounds, were a focal point for the social and religious activities of the Hopewell people about 20…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBFX_wright-earthworks_Newark-OH.html
Ancient Architecture Now LostThe two earthen walls before you are remnants of one of the wonders of the ancient world. They were part of the Newark Earthworks, the largest set of geometric enclosures ever built. Much like a modern cathedral or cou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBFU_alligator-mound_Granville-OH.html
On this bluff lies one of the two great animal effigy mounds built by Ohio's prehistoric people. Shown here, Alligator Mound is a giant earthen sculpture of some four-footed animal with a long, curving tail. Archaeologists believe the animal is pe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAWN_outville_Pataskala-OH.html
Arriving in 1853, the Central Ohio Railroad called this place "Kirkersville Station," and it was later changed by stationmaster James Outcalt, who renamed the town Outville after himself. As rail traffic increased in Ohio, a successor company, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAWM_johnstown-cemetery-war-veterans_Johnstown-OH.html
Side A: Johnstown CemeteryIn 1810, Dr. Oliver Bigelow from Cayuga County, New York, purchased a 4,000-acre tract of land in Monroe Township from John Brown of Boone County, Kentucky, for the sum of $10,000. President John Adams had deeded the land…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAWL_william-mears-dawes-gristmill_Alexandria-OH.html
This grindstone from the farm of William Mears Dawes Gristmill built 1840 on Raccoon Creek one mile west. Stone quarried by Ephraim Cutler on Ohio River, brought here on steamboat and cart by Henry Dawes, grandfather of Beman Gates Dawes, founder,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM907_pataskala-elementary-school_Pataskala-OH.html
The first school in what is now Pataskala was a "subscription school" operated by Amariah Cubberly on the nearby banks of the South Fork of the Licking River in the 1820s. Subscription schools, which charged fees, were the forerunners of rural pub…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM906_hebron-milling-company_Hebron-OH.html
The Hebron Milling Company building was built in 1880 where the National Trail (Route 40) and the Ohio Canal crossed in the village of Hebron. The building sat on the edge of the "turning basin" in the village, where canal boats docked to load or …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM905_hebron_Hebron-OH.html
Located at the crossing of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the National Road, Hebron was a favored commercial and agricultural center for Licking County in the nineteenth century. Only four miles north of the city Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York t…