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Highbanks Metropolitan Park Mounds I and II

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Nearest city
  
Powell, Ohio

Area
  
71 ha

Added to NRHP
  
19 March 1975

NRHP Reference #
  
75001375

Phone
  
+1 614-906-3149

Highbanks Metropolitan Park Mounds I and II

Address
  
9466 Columbus Pike, Lewis Center, OH 43035, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 6:30AM–8PMSaturday6:30AM–8PMSunday6:30AM–8PMMonday6:30AM–8PMTuesday6:30AM–8PMWednesday6:30AM–8PMThursday6:30AM–8PMFriday6:30AM–8PM

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Metro Parks Summer, Antrim Park, Shale Hollow Park, Magic Mountain Fun Cent, Inniswood Metro Gardens

The Highbanks Metropolitan Park Mounds I and II (also known as the Muma Mound and the Orchard Mound or the Selvey Mound) are two archaeological sites located within Highbanks Metro Park in the central part of the U.S. state of Ohio. The park is in southernmost Delaware County on the east bank of the Olentangy River. The subconical mounds are believed to have been built by the Adena culture.

Also located in the park is a semi elliptical embankment, the Highbank Park Works, which consists of four three-foot-high sections bordered by a shallow ditch. It is thought to have been constructed sometime between 800 and 1300 CE by members of the Cole culture.

The site was surveyed by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis in 1846. They discuss the site in their 1848 book, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley.

References

Highbanks Metropolitan Park Mounds I and II Wikipedia