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picture: Hopewell Culture National Historical Park is located in
Chillicothe, Ohio on State Route 104, two miles north of US 35.
The park is open daily March - November. During December -
February it is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. It is also closed
on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's day. The park is open
from 8:30AM - 5:00PM. There are extended hours in the summer,
I'm not sure how late it's open. I guess it closes at dark. The
mounds at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park were bulit
by, you guessed it, the Hopewell Indians. Until the late 1840's
scientists and historians did not know who built these mounds.
The Native Americans living in the area, mainly the Shawnee, did
not know who built the mounds so it was assumed that a lost race
built them. However, through scientific studies it was
determined that the Hopewell built them 2,200 - 1,500 years ago!
The Hopewell settled along riverbanks throughout the midwest.
They were hunte