To celebrate our one-year inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, we invite you to join our photo contest, "Framing Hopewell". This contest intends to highlight the abundant wildlife, natural beauty and people connected to the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks World Heritage Site. This site holds profound historical and cultural importance, and we encourage you to capture its essence through your photography.

Contest Start Date: August 14, 2024

Submission Deadline: September 13, 2024

This contest is now CLOSED. Winners below!

This photo contest is an initiative of the Ohio History Connection.

Location: Great Circle Earthworks, Newark
Caption: A visitor and his dog entering the monumental gateway at the Great Circle Earthworks. This photo was taken on a crisp March morning after a snowfall.

Location: Fort Ancient Earthworks & Nature Preserve, Oregonia
Caption: Sunrise on the Winter Solstice

Location: Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Chillicothe
Caption: Venturing the mounds and finding new secrets, even like this crab spider making a home inside the seed pods of a Queen Anne's Lace. I just so happened to be picking the dried seed pods and was pleasantly surprised to see the home this one made.

Location: Fort Ancient Earthworks & Nature Preserve, Oregonia
Caption: The emergence of leaves is captured in the northern enclosure at Ft. Ancient in wee hours of spring, 1998. They seem to move with the breeze in response to an extended exposure of film in the dim morning light, against a still stone mound in the background.