In 1886, with help from a group of wealthy women in Boston (such as the noted Glass Flowers' patroness Mary Lee Ware), Mary L. Ware and the Early Funding of Harvard Anthropology: Private Sources of Funding in the Nineteenth Century (Paper); D. Wes Beattie - http://eraven.franklinpierce.edu/academicshowcase/2017/marulli.htm Putnam raised funds to purchase 60 acres at the Serpent Mound site for preservation.