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Medicinal value of springs promoted by Charles Matheny, 1840. First hotel built 1864 and resort named Sodaville. Under ownership of General Benjamin Coates, 1888–91, Smith Grimes 1891–08, and J. W. Rogers 1908–20. Mineral Springs Health Resort . . . — — Map (db m132963) HM
First plaque
Cairn of Peace
dedicated at
World’s Conservation Exposition
and
5th World Plowing Contest
September 19- 20, 1957
Second plaque
These competitors were in the
World Plowing Matches
Peebles, Ohio . . . — — Map (db m121814) HM
On the night of July 15, 1863, Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and his Confederate raiders set up camp along a seven-mile stretch between the villages of Jacksonville and Locust Grove. The following morning, General Morgan rode into Locust . . . — — Map (db m214407) HM
Platted in 1881 by Isaiah Custer on the junction of old Zane's Trace (1796-97) and the Cincinnati & Eastern Railway (1881). Incorporated 1886. Named after John G. Peebles, Portsmouth, Ohio businessman. David Nixon constructed the first house in . . . — — Map (db m223788) HM
One of North America’s most spectacular effigy
mounds, Serpent Mound is
a gigantic
earthen
sculpture representative of a snake.
Built on a
spur of rock overlooking Ohio Brush Creek around
1000 A.D. by the Fort Ancient culture, the earthwork . . . — — Map (db m214413) HM
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 m214415) HM
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 m214417) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m214418) HM
An effigy mound is a geoglyph, or symbol made of earth. The most common effigy mounds in North America are animal effigies.
Ohio has only two well-documented effigy mounds, Serpent Mound and Alligator Mound.
Ohio's effigy mounds were . . . — — Map (db m214420) HM
The inn was built 1800-01 by Peter Wickerham,
a Revolutionary War veteran. It was used as
an overnight stagecoach stop and tavern on
Zane's Trace until ca. 1850. Runaway slaves were
hidden here when the "Underground Railroad" was
in operation. . . . — — Map (db m108129) HM
The head of Serpent Mound is lined up to the point on the western horizon where the sun sets on the Summer Solstice – the longest day of the year.
Some think the three main curves of the serpent's body point to the Summer Solstice sunrise, . . . — — Map (db m214409) HM
"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 . . . — — Map (db m214412) HM
Serpent Mound sits within a large crater almost nine miles across. The bedrock in the center of the crater has been thrust upwards to between 400 and 900 feet above its original position, while an outer ring of bedrock has dropped from at least . . . — — Map (db m214414) HM
