hopewell culture nhp

the park has several units, but "mound city" is the centerpiece --- 23 funerary mounds encircled by a low earthen wall --- all of it has been dug up at one time or another, mostly by archaeologists, and a significant portion was destroyed when they built a military camp on the site during world war i --- the museum was good, if small, but i was a little underwhelmed overall, perhaps because of the guy on the giant lawn mower going back and forth over the mounds --- still it's one of the few sites that isn't completely overgrown and gives some sense of what the place was like 2,000 years ago

the hopeton earthworks are across the scioto river from mound city, but plowed over and abused, they have virtually disappeared --- the site wasn't acquired by nps until 1980