Serpent Mound in the Winter

The Serpent Mound

The Serpent Mound was first described by
Squire and Davis in "Ancient Monuments of
the Misissippi Valley" in 1848.

Saved from destruction in 1886
Fredrick Ward Putnam, Professor of
American Archaeology and ethnology,
Harvard University.

The land included in the park was secured
by subscription obtained by ladies of
Boston in 1887, when it was deeded to the
Trustees of the Peabody Museum of
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass,
exempted from taxtation by the act of
legislation of Ohio in 1888.

Transfered by Harvard University May
1900, to Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society for Perpetual care.