Mathew Mound

Mathew Mound
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

View from the south

Location	Atop the hill on the northern side of Oak Rd., Glendale, Ohio^[1]
Coordinates	39°15′44.5″N 84°26′33.5″W / 39.262361°N 84.442639°W / 39.262361; -84.442639Coordinates: 39°15′44.5″N 84°26′33.5″W / 39.262361°N 84.442639°W / 39.262361; -84.442639
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
NRHP Reference #	75001424^[2]
Added to NRHP	May 29, 1975

The Mathew Mound (designated 33-HA-122^[1]) is a Native American mound in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located off Oak Road near the village of Evendale,^[3] the mound is believed to have been built by members of the Adena or Hopewell peoples during the Woodland period.^[4]^:629

For many years, local legend held that the mound was the burial site of a historic Native American known as "Opekasit"; the legend lent itself to the milk-processing operation run by the mound's owners, which was known for many years as the Opekasit Dairy.^[1] The mound is 4.5 feet (1.4 m) high with a diameter of slightly more than 60 feet (18 m). Having never been excavated, it is a prime example of a burial mound from the Woodland period. Based on the excavation of similar mounds, it is expected that the Mathew Mound contains evidence of funerary practices such as grave goods and the remains of buried bodies.^[4]^:630 It is one of two archaeological sites in the vicinity: the other, a small campsite designated 33-HA-125, is a small fraction of a mile west of the mound, but excavation yielded nothing significant.^[1] Because the mound is a potentially valuable archaeological site, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 Location derived from Starr, S.F. "The Archaeology of Hamilton County Ohio". Journal of the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History 23.1 (1960): 83. The NRIS lists the site as "Address Restricted".
1 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ 44 FR 7558
1 2 Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999.

Pre-Columbian North America

Periods Lithic Archaic Formative Classic Post-Classic

Archaeological cultures	Adena Alachua Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) Baytown Belle Glade Buttermilk Creek Complex Caborn-Welborn Calf Creek Caloosahatchee Clovis Coles Creek Deptford Folsom Fort Ancient Fort Walton Fremont Glacial Kame Glades Hohokam Hopewell List of Hopewell sites Leon-Jefferson Mississippian List of Mississippian sites Mogollon Monongahela Old Cordilleran Oneota Paleo-Arctic Paleo-Indians Patayan Plano Plaquemine Poverty Point Red Ocher Santa Rosa-Swift Creek St. Johns Steed-Kisker Tchefuncte Tocobaga Troyville

Archaeological sites	Angel Mounds Bandelier National Monument The Bluff Point Stoneworks Cahokia Casa Grande Chaco Canyon Coso Rock Art District Crystal River Archaeological State Park Eaker Effigy Mounds National Monument Etowah Indian Mounds Eva Folsom Site Fort Ancient Fort Center Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Holly Bluff Site Hopewell Culture National Historical Park Kincaid Mounds Kolomoki Mounds Marksville Meadowcroft Rockshelter Mesa Verde Moorehead Circle Moundville Mummy Cave Nodena Site Ocmulgee National Monument Old Stone Fort Parkin Park Pinson Mounds Portsmouth Earthworks Poverty Point Pueblo Bonito Recapture Canyon Rock Eagle Rock Hawk Russell Cave National Monument Salmon Ruins Serpent Mound Spiro Mounds SunWatch Taos Pueblo Toltec Mounds Town Creek Indian Mound Winterville Wupatki National Monument

Miscellaneous	Black drink Buhl Woman Ceremonial pipe Chunkey Clovis point Container Revolution Eastern Agricultural Complex Eden point Effigy mound Falcon dancer Folsom point Green Corn Ceremony Horned Serpent Kennewick Man Kiva Medicine wheel Metallurgy Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing Mound Builders N.A.G.P.R.A. Norse colonization of the Americas Piasa Southeastern Ceremonial Complex Stickball Three Sisters agriculture Thunderbird Underwater panther

Related Genetic history Portal of Indigenous peoples of North America Pre-Columbian era

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Hamilton County, Ohio

Benham Mound Betts-Longworth Historic District Burchenal Mound Clough Creek and Sand Ridge Archeological District Colerain Works Archeological District Conrad Mound Archeological Site Dravo Gravel Site Dunlap Archeological District Hahn Field Archeological District Mariemont Embankment and Village Site Mariemont Historic District Mathew Mound Mt. Nebo Archaeological District Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound Perin Village Site Norwood Mound Rennert Mound Archeological District Shawnee Lookout Archeological District Short Woods Park Mound State Line Archeological District Story Mound Turpin Site Wesley Butler Archeological District

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