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Now that Moundbuilders Country Club isn’t leasing the site, Ohio History Connection isn’t maintaining Octagon Earthworks as a ...
Fort Ancient, therefore, like Newark’s Octagon Earthworks, was linked to the rhythms of the cosmos. Recent research has revealed the remains of a “woodhenge” in the North Fort that consisted ...
Dick Shiels, former director of the Newark Earthworks Center at Ohio State University-Newark, explained what World Heritage status would mean for the community back in 2016.
Yet, Wallace hadn’t heard of the Newark Earthworks until 2007, when she listened to John Sugden, biographer of Shawnee chief Tecumseh, speak at Ohio State University.
This episode explores the history, cultural significance and global importance as a UNESECO World Heritage site, featuring insights from Ohio State Professors. John Low is a Ohio State professor and ...
The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are eight large earthen enclosures built in Ohio by ancient American Indian peoples between about AD 1 and 400.
After a decade-long legal struggle, the Octagon Earthworks in Newark, Ohio, is now fully accessible to the public, allowing visitors to explore the mounds of earth constructed by Native Americans ...
HEATH — On a recent humid Thursday in August, John Low sat beneath a tree at the Newark Earthworks. Behind him stood the Great Circle, a nearly 2,000-year-old earthen enclosure built by ...
NEWARK, Ohio (WCMH) – Nearly a year and a half after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the state could evict a golf club from the site of 2,000-year-old American Indian earthworks, the parties ...
The Octagon Earthworks in Newark has eight walls, each measuring about 550 feet long and from five to six feet in height, and are joined by parallel walls to a circular embankment. The site is ...