MOUND BUILDERS 



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MOUNDSVILLE 



twelve acres of ground. Another mound in Ohio 

 is about 200 feet across and is surrounded by a 

 ditch thirteen feet wide, evidently a fortifica- 

 tion of some sort. This mound is shaped like 

 a great snake, with its tail coiled and its jaws 

 open. It is more than a quarter of a mile 

 in length; the body is thirty feet wide and the 

 wide open jaws are seventy feet across. In 

 :\ there are a large number of mounds 

 shaped like serpent-, birds and animals buf- 

 falo, elk, moose, deer, wolves and pant: 

 Some of the panthers have tails 350 feet long 

 and some of the ea-j 



-thunder birds" of 

 the old Indian legends, 

 measure 1,000 feet from 

 tip to tip of wing. 



mounds were 

 obviously built for a 

 number of different pur- 

 posessome for fortifi- 

 cations, some for altars 

 and some for monu- 

 ments, while others were 

 simply the foundations 

 for houses. It is be- 



d, also, that they 

 were built by a great 



chipped stone. A flint quarry was discovered 

 in Arkansas from which thousands of cubic 

 yards of stone had been taken with no other 



MAP OF DISTRICTS 

 In the various regions 

 Inhabited by the Mound 

 Builders their mounds 

 appear to have been 

 constructed for differ- 

 number of wandering e nt purposes. The best 

 tribes throughout a long authority classifies 

 ... * them as follows: 



(1) 

 (2) 



(3) 

 (4) 



(5) 

 (6) 



(8) 

 (9) 



Rock Effigies 

 Stockades 

 Enclosures, altars, 

 etc. 



Sto||f graves 



Lodge circles 

 nlda 



ve tombs 

 Shell mounds 



period of time. All of 

 the relics found within 

 and around these 

 mounds tell their story 

 of the people who used 



. The sharp flint 

 axes and hatchets tell us 



; io Mound Builders were able to cut down 

 trees and shape and work the wood. The arrow- 

 heads and .hunting knives and sharp bone 

 t<ll us that th.-y killed and .tinned 

 wild animals, ate their flesh and used their pelt.- 

 for clothing, Tin -ir hoes and spades and house- 

 hold utensils disclose their practice of agricul- 

 ture. Tin- ornaments of beaten copper and iri- 

 descent shell, ornamented with drawings and 

 carving*, tell u- tribes had 



tig for beauty, too. 



and stone quarries from which they 

 ill for their weapons, utensils and 



' nts have been discovered in several 

 places. On Isle Royale, in Lake Superior, th. n 



"pprr mine winch was worked hundred- 



rs before Columbus disc 



t>andoned pits and trenches of th: 

 were filled with rude mining tools made of 



FOUND IN THE MOUNDS 



(a) Flint hoes from Tennessee 



(b) Chuh from Ohio 

 I'ottrry frm Arkansas 



< <l ) KaKlo pipe frorti Ohio 

 "ttery from Missouri 



(/) Pottery with salamander from Ohio 

 (0) Pottery from Iowa 



implements for the work than those which had 

 been chipped from the rock which they later 

 splintered. Another quarry in the Indian Ter- 

 ritory had furnished them with a chalky kind 

 of flint from which they made beautifully- 

 shaped hoes and other tools and long, slender 

 knivrs. A third quarry in i )hio supplied a beau- 

 tifully lin. -L'laim (1 flint for spear- and arrow- 

 head-'. 



whin- th- Mound Builders came, how 

 Icing they occupied American territory, and 

 thnr ult i!, are unknown. A.C. 



Consult Nadalllae's /'rr/ii.sforrV I ,rloa 



MOUNDSVILLE, w,/m/.x- ',/. \\ \ 

 thriving manufacturing and -hipping center and 

 the county goat of Marshall County. Minuted 

 on the west *iile of the narrow -tup of the 

 state which r\t.:ids north I ' 'luo and 



:isylvania. It is on the Ohio : 

 miles south of \Vh. . ling, with which it is con- 

 nected by an electric : I it 00 the 

 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. IK- population was 

 8,918 in 1910, and ll.l.VJ in 1916 esti- 

 mate). The area exceeds two squ.r 



