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30 dec | Blog
By Brad Lepper, Senior Archaeologist for the Ohio History Connection’s World Heritage Program On January 1st, 2025, a new era dawns for Newark’s Octagon Earthworks, one of the brightest jewels in the crown of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks UNESCO World Heritage site. This 2,000-year-old Indigenous wonder of the world has been shrouded by a golf…
02 jul | Blog
Join me as I visit the sites in the Ohio History Connection network! This month’s road trip took me to the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks sites in Oregonia, Chillicothe and Newark & Heath. For this month’s road trip, I definitely bit off more than I could chew. There’s a lot of excitement surrounding the recent addition…