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Serpent Mound State Memorial - 3850 State Route 73 (5 miles NW of Locust Grove on State Route 73)
Peebles, Ohio 45660
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Serpent Mound State Memorial

Serpent Mound is one of the few effigy mounds in Ohio. It is the largest and finest serpent effigy in the United States. The museum contains exhibits on the mound and the geology of the surrounding area, known as the Serpent Mound crypto explosion structure.











From the monument...

The Serpent Mound

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

Saved from destruction in 1886
Frederick 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 taxation by the act of
legislation of Ohio in 1888.

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

 

Shelterhouse

Created over the original wall. The small mound at the left, behind the sign, is an Adena mound.

To learn more visit ohiohistory.org