"The most singular sensation of awe and admiration overwhelmed me... there seemed to come to me a picture as of a distant time, of a people with strange customs, and with it came the demand for an interpretation of this mystery. The unknown must . . . — — Map (db m268308) HM
On Ohio Route 73 1 mile west of Horner Chapel Road (County Route 116), on the right when traveling north.
Dr. Jarrod Burks, from Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc., conducted a magnetic gradient survey of Serpent Mound in 2012. This kind of survey reveals changes in the magnetic properties of soil that are a result of some kind of ground disturbance in the . . . — — Map (db m268316) HM
On Ohio Route 73 1 mile west of Horner Cheapel Road (County Route 116), on the right when traveling north.
In the traditions of many American Indian tribes, the Great Serpent was a powerful spirit. People could call upon the Great Serpent for the power to cure illnesses or to be successful in hunting animals. The Great Serpent offered its power in the . . . — — Map (db m268319) HM
On Ohio Route 73 1 mile west of Horner CHeapel Road (County Route 163).
Serpent Mound sits within a large crater almost nine miles across. The bedrock in the center of the crater has been thrust upward to between 400 and 900 feet above its original position, while an outer ring of bedrock has dropped from at least . . . — — Map (db m268306) HM
On Ohio Route 73 1 mile west of Horner Cheapel Road (County Route 116), on the right when traveling north.
According to Tenskwatawa, often referred to as the Shawnee prophet, when the first Shawnee people came to this land many thousands of years ago, several warriors were lost when they were taken beneath the sea on the back of an immense turtle. . . . — — Map (db m268320) HM
On Ohio Route 73 1 mile west of Horner Cheapel Road (County Route 116), on the right when traveling north.
Frederic W. Putnam, the Harvard University archaeologist who studied Serpent Mound in the late 1800s, described this area as a village site - actually two overlapping village sites, one earlier and one later.
Here he found "sites of dwellings," . . . — — Map (db m268321) HM
On Ohio Route 73 at Horner Cheapel Road (County Route 116), on the right when traveling north on Ohio Route 73.
"Serpent Mound was purposefully built for a special, sacred purpose. I should think that anyone who views the Serpent will realize its sacredness and treat this place as they would a cathedral, synagogue or mosque. When we see this . . . — — Map (db m268307) HM
On Ohio 73 (Ohio Route 73) 1 mile west of Horner Cheapel Road (Route 116), on the right when traveling north.
An effigy mound is a geoglyph, or symbol made of earth. The most common effigy mounds in North America are animal effigies.
Ohio has two well-documented effigy mounds, Serpent Mound and Alligator Mound.
Ohio's effigy mounds were not burial . . . — — Map (db m268313) HM
On Ohio Route 73 1 mile west of Horner Chapel Road (County Route 116), on the right when traveling north.
The ancestors of the American Indians of the Eastern Woodlands built Serpent Mound, but archaeologists disagree about when they built it. Some argue that the Adena culture built the mound around 2,300 years ago. This is the same culture that built . . . — — Map (db m268312) HM
