Monday, August 12, 2024

Discovering the Quarry Adena Burial Mound in Columbus, Ohio

 Discovering the Quarry Adena Burial Mound in Columbus, Ohio

The Quarry Burial Mound is just south of the Shrum Adena Mound! Is this a secret, or am I just the first to rediscover it?  I didn't even see this on the Ohio History (dis) Connection's list of "Address Restricted" burial mounds.


  I had read somewhere that there was an Adena burial mound in Columbus, Ohio, called the Quarry Mound. I have tried looking it up but have yet to be successful. The story was that when digging the quarry, they went around the burial mound, leaving it as an island when the quarry was filled with water. It's on an island in the middle of a quarry—it has still been there! 

    This morning, I am working on a post on the Shrum Adena mound in Columbus, Ohio, and was interested in what a Google Earth aerial of the site would look like. The first thing I see is quarries surrounding it, and in the middle of one is an island with a burial mound! It is within the site of the Shrum mound. Why is this a secret? 

   The Ohio Exploration Society says, " It was quite surprising to us that Shrum Mound did not fall into the grasp of the quarry and disappear forever like so many other sacred Native American sites."  Clueless.

This former overlook, where the mound is visible south of the Shrum mound. I say the former because it looks like there are mechanicals for the quarry there now. I think originally, since the quarry builders went to the trouble of saving the burial mound, this was the original overlook to view the mound.

It should be visible from the Shrum mound park in the winter months. Don't trespass.