Adena Mound

Adena Mound
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Pre-1914 view of the mound
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Location	Ross County, Ohio
Nearest city	Chillicothe, Ohio
Coordinates	39°21′21.34″N 83°0′32.62″W / 39.3559278°N 83.0090611°W / 39.3559278; -83.0090611Coordinates: 39°21′21.34″N 83°0′32.62″W / 39.3559278°N 83.0090611°W / 39.3559278; -83.0090611
Area	1.4 acres (0.57 ha)
NRHP Reference #	75001529[1]
Added to NRHP	June 5, 1975

Adena Mound, the type site for the Adena culture of prehistoric mound builders, is a registered historic structure, on the grounds of the Adena Mansion for which it is named, near Chillicothe, Ohio, was listed in the National Register on June 5, 1975.^[1]

Historic uses

• Graves/Burials

Present view of the base of the mound

See also

• Adena culture

References

External links

Media related to Adena Mound at Wikimedia Commons

Adena Culture
List of Adena culture sites Woodland period Mound builder (people) List of archaeological periods (North America)
Ohio sites	Adena Austin Brown Arledge Beam Farm Clemmons Conrad Coon Hunters George Deffenbaugh Enon Fortner Great Mound Highbanks Metro Park Hillside Haven Hodgen's Cemetery Horn Hurley Jackson Karshner Kinzer Luthor List McDaniel Miamisburg Mound Cemetery Odd Fellows' Cemetery Old Maid's Orchard Orators Carl Potter Raleigh Reeves D.S. Rose Ross Trails Circle Short Woods Park Snead Spruce Run David Stitt Story (Cincinnati) Story (Chillicothe) Williamson Wolf Plains Wright-Patterson Zaleski
Kentucky sites	Biggs Gaitskill Mound Hill Mount Horeb Ramey Round Hill
West Virginia sites	Criel Grave Creek
Indiana sites	Mounds State Park
Related topics Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley burial mound Eastern Agricultural Complex Hopewell tradition

Pre-Columbian North America
Periods Lithic Archaic Formative Classic Post-Classic
Archaeological cultures	Adena Alachua Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) Baytown Belle Glade Buttermilk Creek Complex Caborn-Welborn Calf Creek Caloosahatchee Clovis Coles Creek Deptford Folsom Fort Ancient Fort Walton Fremont Glacial Kame Glades Hohokam Hopewell List of Hopewell sites Leon-Jefferson Mississippian List of Mississippian sites Mogollon Monongahela Old Cordilleran Oneota Paleo-Arctic Paleo-Indians Patayan Plano Plaquemine Poverty Point Red Ocher Santa Rosa-Swift Creek St. Johns Steed-Kisker Tchefuncte Tocobaga Troyville
Archaeological sites	Angel Mounds Anzick Clovis burial Bandelier National Monument The Bluff Point Stoneworks Cahokia Casa Grande Chaco Canyon Coso Rock Art District Crystal River Archaeological State Park Eaker Effigy Mounds National Monument Etowah Indian Mounds Eva Folsom Site Fort Ancient Fort Center Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Glenwood Grimes Point Holly Bluff Site Hopewell Culture National Historical Park Kimball Village Kincaid Mounds Kolomoki Mounds L'Anse aux Meadows Marksville Marmes Rockshelter Meadowcroft Rockshelter Mesa Verde Moaning Cavern Moorehead Circle Moundville Mummy Cave Nodena Site Ocmulgee National Monument Old Stone Fort Parkin Park Pinson Mounds Portsmouth Earthworks Poverty Point Pueblo Bonito Recapture Canyon Rock Eagle Rock Hawk Russell Cave National Monument Salmon Ruins Serpent Mound Spiro Mounds SunWatch Taos Pueblo Toltec Mounds Town Creek Indian Mound Turkey River Mounds Upward Sun River site West Oak Forest Earthlodge Winterville Wupatki National Monument
Human remains	Anzick-1 Arlington Springs Man Buhl Woman Kennewick Man La Brea Woman Leanderthal Lady Minnesota Woman Spirit Cave mummy
Miscellaneous	Black drink Ceremonial pipe Chunkey Clovis point Container Revolution Eastern Agricultural Complex Eden point Effigy mound Falcon dancer Folsom point Green Corn Ceremony Horned Serpent Kiva Medicine wheel Metallurgy Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing Mound Builders N.A.G.P.R.A. Norse colonization of the Americas Piasa Southeastern Ceremonial Complex Stickball Three Sisters agriculture Thunderbird Underwater panther Water glyphs
Related Genetic history Portal of Indigenous peoples of North America Pre-Columbian era

National Register of Historic Places in Ross County, Ohio
National Historical Park	Mound City Group National Monument
National Historic Landmarks	Adena (Thomas Worthington House) Hopeton Earthworks
Historic districts	Chillicothe Business District Chillicothe's Old Residential District Grandview Cemetery Great Seal Park Archeological District Charles Metzger Mound Seip Earthworks and Dill Mounds District
Other properties	Adena Mound Levi Anderson House Howard Baum Site (33RO270) Austin Brown Mound Buchwalter House-Applethorpe Farm T.C. Campbell Mound Canal Warehouse Cedar-Bank Works Chillicothe Water and Power Company Pumping Station Frankfort Works Mound Gartner Mound and Village Site Dr. John Harris Dental School Higby House High Banks Works Highbank Farm Hopewell Mound Group Kinzer Mound Henry Mace House Mary Worthington Macomb House Mountain House Oak Hill Renick House, Paint Hill Seip House South Salem Academy South Salem Covered Bridge Spruce Hill Works David Stitt Mound Story Mound State Memorial Tanglewood Vanmeter Church Street House Anthony and Susan Cardinal Walke House Wesley Chapel
Formerly listed	Kendrick-Barrett House
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Ross County, Ohio and List of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio

National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
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