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After more than a decade, the ongoing legal battle over the Newark Earthworks’ Octagon Mounds has ended. Moundbuilders Country Club and Ohio History Connection reached a settlement to buy out ...
John Low is a Ohio State professor and director of the Newark Earthworks Center, he shares the cultural significance of the site. "It's a circle with earthworks that surround it, about 15 to 20 feet ...
The clubhouse of the private Moundbuilders Country Club, the site of the Octagon Earthworks, is seen in Newark, Ohio, on May 24, 2024. April 18 is World Heritage Day, but Ohio History Connection ...
The Newark Earthworks are the largest earthworks in ... scientific and cultural significance of the mounds themselves,” according to the lower court ruling. The judge ruled those estimations ...
These include The Great Circle and The Octagon in Newark, Ohio ... While not all earthworks in Ohio are specifically Hopewell Mounds – such as the solar-aligned Serpent Mound Historical Site ...
For the first time in more than a century, the Octagon Earthworks in Newark, part of Ohio’s first and only UNESCO World Heritage Site, is fully accessible to the public. For the first time in ...
This massive complex includes burial mounds and a collection of circular ... The week culminates in an all-day event at the Octagon Earthworks in Newark on April 18, World Heritage Day.
Fort Ancient features mounds and embankment walls winding across a 126-acre plateau above the Little Miami River in Warren County. Ohio World Heritage Week begins Saturday with day-long events at Fort ...
The clubhouse of the private Moundbuilders Country Club, the site of the Octagon Earthworks, is seen in Newark, Ohio, on May 24, 2024. April 18 is World Heritage Day, but Ohio History Connection is ...