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Color photos are of the Great Circle, located in Heath. The black-and-white photos of the Octagon Earthworks in Newark were taken from the air in the 1980s, showing the interposition of country club golf sand traps and greens with the surviving parts of the ancient circles, walls, Observatory Circle and Octagon.
Site Activities: Self-Guided. Museum & Site Type: Ohio History Connection Site & American Indian Site. Visit Newark Earthworks, an architectural wonder of ancient America, the largest set of geometric earthen enclosures in the world.
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The Newark Earthworks were constructed between 100 B.C. and A.D. 500 by a people we know today as the Hopewell Culture. Part temple, part astronomical observatory, and part cemetery, this is...
May 15, 2024. Cartoon Room 1, Third Floor, Ohio Union, Columbus Campus. 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. The Newark Earthworks are the largest set of geometric earthen enclosures in the world. Honored as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023, the entire Newark Earthworks originally encompassed more than four square miles.
Aerial photos from the 1930s by Dasch Reeves show the walls of the “Great Hopewell Road” in fields southwest of Newark. THE OCTAGON'S MODERN HISTORY When pioneers began to settle around Newark in the late 1700s, the earthworks were already ancient and overgrown.
Apr 16, 2024 · Photographed July 30, 2019. (Columbus Dispatch photo by Doral Chenoweth III) Doral Chenoweth III, The Columbus Dispatch. A flat-topped mound (diagonal on left side of picture) forms part of the...
Spread over four square miles, Newark Earthworks is composed of four colossal sites: the Great Circle Earthworks, the Octagon Earthworks, the Cherry Valley Ellipse, and Wright Earthworks, all interconnected by parallel walls and earthen embankments.
