Nomination for Story Mound State Memorial

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) NAME AND/ OR HISTORIC: (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments - Commercial - Other (Specify) OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: FOR NPS USE ONLY DATE OF SURVEY: - Local LOCATION 039 CATEGORY REGISTER Site ACCESSIBLE Columbus Private Entertainment Restricted Both Government Religious COUNTY CLASSIFICATION Unoccupied CODE OWNERSHIP Agricultural STATUS Transportation Industrial Structure Public Private Residence Chillicothe Yes: Ohio Park Index of Archaeological Sites Museum Educational Object Scientific COMMON: Congressional District: Ross Federal Chillicothe Mound #5 Story Mound State Memorial DATE Public Acquisition: District Division of Archaeology, The Ohio Historical Society Cherokee and Delano Streets East of junction Building William H.

Harsha Form 10-300 1982 Velma Avenue DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: The Ohio Historical Society Being Considered STREET AND NUMBER: Military X State In Process CITY OR TOWN: ROSBECEIVEn FORINPS USE ON72 (July 1969) The State of Ohio: Administered by the Ohio Historical Society The ENTRY NUMBER 1939ff. DESCRIPTION X Excellent - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved X Original Site Chillicothe, Ohio, within three blocks of three was donated to the State of Ohio in 1950by Mrs. donated lot, standing 19.5 feet high, with a basal of preservation, although minor subsidence at a few a height of 21.5 feet and a diameter of 95 feet. MAY 3 1972 CONDITION REGISTE Grace Sutton Nye.

Ruins The Story Mound State Memorial consists of a large The prehistoric burial mound occupies most of the of maintaining grass cover on the clayey soil of NATIONAL nominated property and the surrounding land on the artificial mound.The mound is in a fine state the summit is bare and subject to minor erosion, excavated during the 1897 archaeological excavation. The property is maintained by the State of due to visitor foot traffic and the difficulty which the schools stand was formerly the city's Ohio and The Ohio Historical Society and is open points on its flanks testifies to radial tunnels Before excavation in 1897,the mound was reported to subconical earthen mound centered on a 0.8o2 acre consists of mowed grass and a few large trees; lot in a northern residential area of the city of to the public.

(Check One) Good Fair DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE RECEIVED major Chillicothe public secondary schools; the OF SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Pre-Columbian / 19th Century . MAY 3 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

The Story Mound State Memorial, a large mortuary structure, but it was reported that bark fragments single extended inhumation, representing the Inapping toolkit. Commerce Conservation losophy Architecture Communications Prehistoric Military Aboriginal Engineering Religion/Phi Art Landscape Theater Literature NATIONAL Education Transportation Science Music Social/Human- three deer antler tines representing a flint- Political square-bottomed vertical posts ranging from inclusion in the National Register because it is itarian The structure revealed by the early excavation Adena ceremonial and domestic architecture.

Sculpture Invention since become better understood as the norm in of Adena architectural norms and because it has structure erected by a prehistoric Adena Indian been restored and maintained for public benefit The Story Mound State Memorial is nominated for posthole pattern was all that remained of the projectile points, one of them comprising nine diameter of fifteen feet, and composed of as a classic example of the Adena mortuary complex. burial of a young male individual and accompanied by three slate gorgets and a number of bone beads.

Urban Planning four to twelve inches in diameter and driven to Near the skeleton were two caches of Adena stemmed to be considered a type site for the recognition points and the other six points associated with Agriculture Industry the timber structure near its North wall lay a was nearly a perfect circle in plan, with a Excavated in 1897 by Clarence Loveberry by means a depth of five feet below the mound floor;the Other (Specify) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) group ca. 500 B.C.-400 A.D., played a significant of a tunneling operation, the mound yielded the timber building--a structural type which has first documented example of a circular Adena role in the development of Ohio archaeology. 500 B.C.-400 A.D. 1. Moorehead, W.K. 1899 Report of Field Work in Various Portions of Ohio. Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Quarterly VII: 132-136.

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: Dr. Major C.R. McCollough, Assistant Curator of Archaeology Jan. 24, 1972 STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion GP 0 901.08 7 039 Degrees COUNTY Local LONGITUDE Minutes LATITUDE Seconds Title ORGANIZATION Columbus DATE National STATE CORNER CODE The Ohio Historical Society National Register.

Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- STREET AND NUMBER: Ohio 1982 Velma Avenue I hereby certify that this property is included in the NAME AND TITLE: evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set 0.802 acre FORM PREPARED BY in the National Register and certify that it has been CITY OR TOWN: Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Name level of significance of this nomination is: MAR 7 1973 ASST. KEEPER DIRECTOR, OAHP EDITORIAL PROCESSING, EDITOR Federal Registry Entry__ 4- 3-73 WORKING NUMBER 5, 3.

12.65/ COMMENTS : LOGGED REVIEW ARCHEOLOGIST RESUBMIT ARCHITECT ACKNOWLEDGE MAP WRITER/EDITOR LEA Card PHOTO DESCRIPTION (S) Annual Edition Entry DATA PAGE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: DATE OF RECEIPT PHOTO (S) See over MAP DESCRIPTION (S) 10/13/12 - STATE Ret#t NUMBER YES 4-3-73 REGISTER: ROSS Ross I am inclined to a ccept this nomination. It apparently has little further or habitation areas. But the mound in this casé would seem to have real recognitions would be legitimate in this case.

probably not too much value in worrying about any associated structures 124/73 scientific value and since it islocated in a residential area there is interpretive value in this urban setting and I think National Register Aten PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) Story Mound State Memorial AND/OR HISTORIC: REGISTER STREET AND NUM BER: TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. S. Latitude and longitude reference. 039 141 1961 LOCATION REQUIREMENTS NAME COUNTY Chillicothe STATE DATE 1:24000 CODE SCALE: Ohio Ross COMMON: Chillicothe Mound #5 MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: NATIONAL CITY OR TOWN: U.S.G.S.

7z' Quadrangle, "Chillicothe East, Ohio" 1972 State Rout LONG. W. 82°59'58" DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES CHILLICOTHE EAST, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STORY MOUND STATE OF OHIO OHIO-ROSS CO 39 ° 20' 31" JU.S. Route ROAD CLASSIFICATION 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) CHILLICOTHE EAST QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES CHILLICOTHE LAT Interstate 71 and 17th Avenue the ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus, ohio 432l1/telephone (614) 469-4663 May 2, 1972 Dr. William J. Murtagh, Keeper 1100 L Street, N.W., Rm. 3209 Washington, D.C. 20005 Board, meeting in Executive Committee session, approved all of the Daniel R. Porter Encl: Applications: Jeffers, H. P., Mound Stitt, David, Mound Brown, Austin, Mound Metzger, Charles, Mound Director REGISTER Coe Mound NATIONAL Sincerely, National Register Cedar-Bank Works enclosed applications.

Tick Ridge Mound Orators Mound Greene County: Please note that Ohio Congressional District is indicated on the Hartley Mound DRP/eg with prehistoric Indian landmarks in central and southern Ohio. Holder-Wright Works Historic Place application forms for your consideration.All deal Highbank Park Mound II Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation This is to certify that the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory RECEIVED Ross County: Adena Mound Story Mound State Memorial upper right corner of page one of each form. Dear Bill: I enclose herewith seventeen completed National Register of Highbank Park Works MAY 3 Cannon, Tom, Mound Clemmons, W. C., Mound Franklin County: Pickaway County: Colimbus, Ohio 43211 Hon. Donald D.

Clency Director, Northeast Region 1973 STATE Date Entered 3/12/73 Name NRowland:mm ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Hamilton County PHR Ross County Fewiek Club Annex Scarlet Oals Chillicothe State Liaison Officer The Ohio Historlcal Society Story Hound State Menordal Hami1con County Hon. Will1am B. Saxbe Location Cincinnati Cincianati MAD Cineinmatt