The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot (411 m)-long,three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound on a plateau of the Serpent Mound crater along Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio.

The non-profit Ohio History Connection, formerly known as the Ohio Historical Society, owns the mound. ”Serpent Mound is well-known and visited by many people of different faiths and religions.

The Serpent Mound is not a burial mound, though there are burial mounds nearby, from two different native populations, the Adena, who lived in Ohio from roughly 800 B.C. to A.D. 100, and the Fort ...

Imagine you're living in ancient times in what is now Ohio. One day you and your friends decide: Let's make a 1,376-foot-long (419-meter-long) snake sculpture on the edge of this meteorite crater ...

A new controversy has erupted at an historic site after a candlelighting event was abruptly canceled. “We were notified back in mid-November by the Ohio History Connection that they were ...

But it’s clear that the story told by Serpent Mound is an American Indian story — not some Old World story about a serpent and an egg. Brad Lepper is curator of archaeology at the Ohio History ...

In 2008, the U.S. Department of the Interior put Serpent Mound and the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks on its tentative list of places to be nominated for the World Heritage List of UNESCO (United ...

Ohio’s Great Serpent Mound is the most famous Indian mound in America. Years ago, when I worked fulltime at the Newark Earthworks visitors center, it was not at all unusual for someone to walk ...

The 1,400 foot Serpent Mound, a snake effigy believed to be built by either the Adena or Fort Ancient people thousands of years ago, is the "largest animal sculpture of any in the world," Lepper said.

Serpent Mound State Memorial is located at 3850 State Route 73, Peebles OH 45660; 800-752-2757. From the West, take State Route 73 south of Hillsboro. If you reach Locust Grove, you’ve gone 4 ...