Moundsville's Mammoth Mound
Author : Delf Norona
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Mounds
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Author : Delf Norona
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Mounds
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Author : Delf Norona
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Grave Creek Mound (Marshall County, W. Va.)
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Author : John Peter Hale
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Author : Delf Norona
Publisher : Headline Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 1962
Category : History
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Detailed book on the world-famous mammoth Indian burial mound, known to archeologists as the Grave Creek Mound, written by mound authority Delf Norona in 1962? this book is very detailed with drawings and photographs, one map of the mound was drawn in 1845 by Seth Eastman who was a professor of drawing at West Point and commissioned by the United States Government to prepare sketches of items of interest relating to the history of the Indians. Fascinating facts on the Adena Culture of the Ohio Valley adds to the importance of this source book on the subject of the Grave Creek Mound.
Author : Frederick Converse Beach
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Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 978 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Robert W. Schramm
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738517353
From 250 to 150 B.C., the Adena people constructed a burial mound by moving 60,000 tons of earth. The resulting formation, the largest conical burial mound in the country, is located in the middle of the namesake town of Moundsville, West Virginia. Although the Grave Creek Mound, as it is now called, attracts spectators from miles around and is the showpiece of the locals, it is not the only noteworthy feature of the town. Fokker Aircraft Factory, the Fostoria Glass Company, United States Stamping Company, and the Marx Toy Company were all located in Moundsville and nearby Glen Dale, and many of the employees were town residents. The area is also home to the old West Virginia Penitentiary, which is now a national historical landmark, and the Daily Echo, a country newspaper that has been the voice of the community for more than 100 years. The county seat of Marshall County, Moundsville is a Southern town immersed in history and full of people dedicated to its preservation.
Author : Darla Spencer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1439667292
The first Europeans to arrive in the Ohio Valley were intrigued and puzzled by the many conical earthen mounds they encountered there. They created wild theories about who the mysterious "mound builders" might be. It was not until the 1880s that Smithsonian Institution investigations revealed that the mound builders were the ancestors of living Native Americans. More than four hundred mounds have been recorded in West Virginia, including the Grave Creek Mound in Marshall County, once the largest conical mound in North America. Join archaeologist Darla Spencer and learn about the Grave Creek Mound and sixteen additional Adena mounds and groups of mounds from the fascinating Woodland period in West Virginia.
Author : Frederick Converse Beach
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Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 960 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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