Qualla: Mound Cemetery Mound https://qualla.com/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mound Cemetery Mound https://qualla.com/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio Mound Cemetery Mound: Introduction https://qualla.com/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. There used to be many of them. When white settlers arrived in what would become Meigs County, Ohio, in the late eighteenth century, they found dozens of conical earthen mounds dotting the high ground above the Ohio River and its tributaries - landmarks built two thousand years earlier by the people archaeologists now call the Adena culture. Most of those mounds are gone. Some were dug into by treasure hunters convinced they held silver or gold. Some were leveled by farmers who needed the land flat for plowing. A few survived for an accidental reason: settlers buried their own dead at their bases, and the cemeteries that grew up around them became, in effect, protective walls. The Mound Cemetery Mound near Chester, Ohio, is one of those accidental survivors.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio-wp/dnvw-mound-cemetery-mound-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mound Cemetery Mound: The People Who Built It https://qualla.com/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. The Adena culture flourished in the Ohio Valley roughly from 1000 BC to 200 AD - a thousand years of small communities that hunted, fished, gathered nuts and berries, and built earthworks. Their mounds typically covered burials, usually of high-status individuals, sometimes with ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio-wp/dnvw-mound-cemetery-mound-the-people-who-built-it.mp3 0:06 2 full Mound Cemetery Mound: What the Settlers Did, and Did Not, Destroy https://qualla.com/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. The pioneer-era account of Meigs County notes that many mounds existed when European Americans arrived, and many were destroyed. The two main destructive forces were treasure hunting - settlers digging into mounds in search of buried valuables, often finding instead stone tools, ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio-wp/dnvw-mound-cemetery-mound-what-the-settlers-did-and-did-not-destroy.mp3 0:06 3 full Mound Cemetery Mound: The Second Mound https://qualla.com/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio/ Photo credit Jonathunder, Public domain. There is another mound nearby - the Reeves Mound - which was also added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the same year as the Mound Cemetery Mound. Together they form a small cluster of preserved Adena-era earthworks in central Meigs County. Local accounts als...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio-wp/dnvw-mound-cemetery-mound-the-second-mound.mp3 0:06 4 full Mound Cemetery Mound: What It Means to Visit https://qualla.com/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. Visiting the Mound Cemetery Mound today involves driving a quiet country road in rural Meigs County, parking at a small cemetery, and walking past a few rows of nineteenth- and twentieth-century gravestones to a low earthen rise covered in grass. It does not announce itself. Ther...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio-wp/dnvw-mound-cemetery-mound-what-it-means-to-visit.mp3 0:06 5 full Mound Cemetery Mound: Flying Over the Quiet Ridge https://qualla.com/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. From the air, the mound itself is too small to identify - a low rise a few feet high in a cemetery a few hundred feet across, hidden by trees in summer. The cemetery sits on slightly elevated ground north of Chester village, in the gently rolling country between the Ohio River to...

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