Hundreds of sites along the tributaries of the Ohio River incorporated structures used for social gathering places, religious shrines, pilgrimages, and mortuary rituals. Beginning about three thousand years ago, they built extensive earthworks from the Great Lakes down through the Mississippi River Valley and into the Gulf of Mexico region. The classic work on the Mound-Builders of the United States by Henry Clyde Shetrone. Earth’s Milky Way Galaxy over Mound A at Poverty Point, Louisiana, which was built circa 1400 AD.

( Photo by Jenny Ellerbe ) Penn Museum of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia is opening a show later this month called Moundbuilders: Ancient Architects of North America. Hundreds of sites along the tributaries of the Ohio River incorporated structures used for social gathering places, religious shrines, pilgrimages, and mortuary rituals. The oldest mound associated with the Woodland period was the mortuary mound and pond complex at the Fort Center site in Glade County, Florida. From about 1000 B.C. The mound was well known in the 19 th century and was located on a bluff overlooking where Chartiers Creek enters the Ohio River in the borough of McKees Rocks. Visit our keyboard shortcuts docs for details Duration: 4 minutes, 20 seconds. A Pennsylvania Historical Marker was placed here May 18, 2002 by a joint effort of the community and the Heinz History Center. It was 16 feet high and had a basal diameter of 85 feet. A Master Mason: of the 32 nd Degree and Shriner. The mound system contains distribution pipes set within the gravel level, along with a pump chamber that collects the wastewater emerging from the tank. An Accountant: City of Erie, PA. A Fiscal Assistant: County of Erie, PA. A Financial Consultant: Erie, PA. A Health Administrator: State of PA Dept of Public Assistance.

The table of contents and list of illustrations (below) give an insight into the scope of this legendary publication. By Marylynne Pitz, Post-Gazette Staff Writer . The first group of people to develop this unique way of life were the Adena people. ... After the Mound Builders, who stopped building mounds between 1542 and 1650, the next group of Indians that claimed control of the Mercer County region is the Erie Indians, or the Cat Nation (Eriehronon). Licking County contains some of the finest examples of ancient architectural wonders, known as Mounds and built by people dubbed by early historians as the Mound Builders. Mound Builders were prehistoric American Indians, named for their practice of burying their dead in large mounds. Sunday, May 13, 2001. The marker text reads: Largest Native American burial mound in Western PA., (16 ft. high and 85 ft wide). In that volume Silverburg has a little to say about the "search for a race of giant Mound Builders in the Ohio Valley" during the early 1800s (on pages 28-30) and a bit more to offer concerning "giant bones," the "evening conversations" of Joseph Smith, and "unpublished manuscripts of Mound Builder fables" (on …

McKees Rocks Mound was the largest prehistoric mound found in Western Pennsylvania. The Indians of Lawrence Co., PA. Posted on April 29, 2013 by Roberta Estes. A Master Mason: of the 32 nd Degree and Shriner. One day on a promontory in McKees Rocks, a boy named James J. Westwood used a bat to hunt for a baseball and struck a human shin bone instead.