Mound Cemetery

The Adventure...

Many Native American mounds can be found throughout Southeast Ohio. The Mound Cemetery is a prominent example of such prehistoric earthworks. Numerous weathered headstones are evidence that early settlers used the site as a cemetery. The largest of the mounds is about 25 feet high and 75 feet in diameter. The smaller mounds range in height from five to two feet. This mound group is associated with a "Graded Way," or set of parallel embankments that frame a natural drainage channel that leads from the high terrace down to the Scioto River.The age of the Piketon Mound group is unknown. Such groupings of conical burial mounds are typical of the Adena culture (800 BC – AD 100), but the parallel embankments framing the "Graded Way" are more typical of the Hopewell culture (100 BC – AD 500).Although there has been no careful scientific investigation of the mounds, curiosity seekers have dug into one or more of the mounds. Reportedly, one of the smaller mounds held the burial of a girl wrapped in bark. The Piketon Mounds are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

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Mound Cemetery Road 
Piketon, Ohio 45661

740.947.9650

To learn more about the earthworks of Southeast Ohio visit www.OhioHistoryTours.org

Getting there is Half the Adventure!

Mound Cemetery is located near of the intersection of US Route 23 and State Route 124/32 in Piketon. Take US Route 23 and turn onto Mound Cemetery Road.

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