Mound Builders of Ohio
Charles Whittlesey (1808-1886)
Plan of the Ancient Works at
Marietta, Ohio
Ink and graphite on paper, 1837
Gift of Frank Squier, 1905 (114A.2)
Manuscript Division
Charles Whittlesey (1808-1886)
Fortified Hill, Butler Co.,
Ohio
Ink and graphite on paper, 1836
Manuscript Division
Gift of Frank Squier, 1905 (114A.13)
(
November 21, 2002
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This Plan of the Ancient Works at Marietta, Ohio,
was sketched in 1837 by Charles Whittlesey, geologist, engineer,
and student of ancient North American cultures. It depicts a huge
earthwork shaped by so-called Mound Builders, prehistoric Indians
who lived in the Ohio Valley. Such mounds, varying greatly in size
and built for purposes that are still not fully understood, once
numbered in the thousands throughout the Midwest. Many have been
eradicated by the spread of settlement and and the expansion of
farmland.
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