Seip Mound State Memorial Park, Ohio

(Hopewell Culture National Historical Park)

Map showing the landscape around Fort Ancient and the Little Miami River Valley Seip Mound State Memorial Park is located in fields of the floodplain of Paint Creek, a tributary of the Scioto River and located about 25 miles east of Chillicothe, Ohio on U.S. Highway 50. Native Americans belonging to the Hopewell tradition constructed this mound sometime between 100 B.C. – A.D. 400.

Seip Mound State Memorial Park is one of six noncontiguous sites that make up the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. The other five sites in the Chillicothe area include Hopeton Earthworks, Hopewell Mound Group, High Banks Works, Spruce Hill Earthworks, and the Mound City Group.
Map of Seip Mound State Memorial Park, Ohio: Click here or on the map to see a larger view.
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Interpretive sign at Seip Mound Seip Mound State Memorial park earthworks Interpretive sign with a historic map of the Seip Mound interpretive site. Burial mound at the center of Seip Mound earthworks.
An interpretive sign describing the archaeology of the site. Gap in the earthworks wall surrounding Seip Mound. Map of a the Seip Mound site on a park display. Seip burial mound located in the center of the earthworks.
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The URL is: https://gotbooks.miracosta.edu/gonp/hocu/html2/seip_mound.htm
Last modified: 5/11/2019