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Mount Vernon Site | |
Location | Posey County, Indiana |
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Coordinates | 37°54′48″N 87°56′23″W / 37.91333°N 87.93972°W |
Built | ~100 AD |
NRHP reference No. | 95001542 |
Added to NRHP | 11 January 1996 |
The Mount Vernon Site, also known as the GE Mound, is a Hopewell site near Mount Vernon in southwest Indiana. The site was discovered in 1988 during road construction at a General Electric plastic manufacturing facility. The mound was partially leveled, used for road fill, and subject to widespread looting shortly after its discovery, resulting in a contentious and precedent-setting prosecution under the Archeological Resources Protection Act.[1] It was one of the five largest recorded Hopewell mounds before its destruction.[2]
Characteristics edit
Part of the Crab Orchard Culture, the mound was 125 m (410 ft) long, 50 m (160 ft) wide, and 6 m (20 ft) tall.
Discovery and Looting edit
Multiple parties including the landowner, General Electric; Federal Government; State Government; and Native American tribes objected to the treatment of the site.
See Also edit
Mann Site - Large nearby mound complex
UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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Criteria | (i)(iii) |
Reference | 1689 |
Inscription | 2023 (45th Session) |
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks is a World Heritage Site in the United States preserving eight monumental earthworks constructed by the Hopewell Culture. The sites were constructed between approximately 0 and 400 AD along tributaries of the Ohio River in the present-day state of Ohio.
World Heritage Listing edit
The monument consists of eight Hopewell sites throughout southern Ohio.[3]
- ^ Munson, Cheryl Ann; Jones, Marjorie Melvin; Fry, Robert E. (January 1995). "The GE Mound: An ARPA Case Study" (PDF). American Antiquity. 60 (1): 131–159 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Lynott, Mark (2014). Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio. Oxbow Books. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-78297-754-4.
- ^ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2024-05-26.