Adena Hopewell Earthwork in Warren County, Ohio

Map of the Fort Ancient earthwork. There is enough dirt in these walls where if you filled big dump trucks full of earth and backed them end to end they would stretch to Toledo Ohio some 180 miles away.

The Hopewell Indians lived here from 100 B.C.-500 A.D.

Two mounds at the gateway of Fort Ancient. The Ohio Historical Society charges 7.00 to get inside, but you can see plenty from the outside the gateway of Fort Ancient. The Ohio Historical Society charges 7.00 to get inside, but you can see plenty from the outside.  

The burial mounds at the gateway of Fort Ancient used to be much larger.