Union Station, Ohio

Ezekiel Cunningham, esq., but the largest is on the farm of Zephaniah Alward. The summit of this would command the view of a large scope of country if the timber were removed, and signals could be easily exchanged between this and those on the hills near Hebron, or with those about Union Station, and perhaps with not more than one repeating, to Columbus. I put up with Mr. John Deeds, on York street, and spent one day in this vicinity, and found several mounds. From here I traveled south and crossed the South fork into Titna township, and clown the county line, south of the Bloody Run swamp to the Baltimore road, thence to Hebron, and along the east line of the township, back to Union Station. In this trip I sometimes laid down fences and rode through farms, and sometimes would jeave my horse and walk a mile to examine some objective point, and I have found these mounds everywhere on this territory, both on the hills and plains, in sufficient number to overook the whole surface of the land, and I do not believe that within the bounds of mv research there can be found a single fifty acre lot that can not be viewed from some one or more of these artificial mounds. I have examitied the location of more than one hundred, and have not found a single exception to the rule that each one is so situated as to command a view, more or less of which cannot be seen from any other, except in a few instances where they were double or in pairs. This rule, how. ever, would not hold good where they are found on a level plain in clusters, which is sometimes the case. On this trip I met with Mr. Jesse Thompson, of Hebron, but formerly of Fairfield county, Ohio, who informed me that when he first settled on Walnut creek, in Fairfield county, about the beginning of the present century, there was a graded road, easily traced in the timber; that it was some thiity or forty feet wide between the ditches, and appeared to be as old as the forts and mounds and he always thought it to be a road leading from the works near Newark to those at Circleville, as it was on a line between those points. But I have met with nothing of the kind, nor do I suppose that, in the present improved state of the country it could be found.

Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.

Jones, T. P., farmer, post office, Union Station, was born in Newton township in 1835; moved to Newark, in 1836, and remained there until 1848; he removed soon after to Union township, and settled on the farm where he at present lives; he was married to. Miss Minerva J. Spangler in 1878. They have one child. The subject of this sketch is an enterprising and leading man in his township; he has filled the office of justice of the peace for the period of eleven years. Mr. Jones and wife are members of the Licking Baptist church.

Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.

"We next visited an elevation about a mile south of Union Station, on the old farm of Henry Hillbrant. Here is a double-walled fort, about seventy-five rods in diameter, with two mounds inside of it. The walls, with the ditch between them, have occupied a base of some fifty-feet. There are some forty rods of the circumvallation that is in the timber and has aot been ploughed, but the balance of it has been in cultivation ibout forty years, and is in many places nearly effaced so that t is at present difficult to determine how many or where the openings were, but from appearances I think there have been fates, or openings, to the north, the east and the southeast, oward three fine springs that are some thirty or forty rods listant, at the base of the hill. From the present appearance me, if not all of these springs, may have at some former period >roken out of the hill-side near to it, if not within the line of he works, but at present they are all at the base of the hill. The prospect from this elevation is very fine, and embraces icarly the same territory as that from the mound on the Infirmry farm, with a fine additional view to the south, and a view of . portion of Cherry valley, that is intercepted by hills from hose mounds north of the railroad. The fine mound near the ite of the old Twining mill, on the Raccoon branch of Licking iver, the mounds in the upper part of Cherry valley, and those 1 the Auter creek valley, near the old English mill, as well as tie works at the fair grounds, and others on the Cherry valley, all would come under the view from this elevation, though from five to seven miles distant. From this point the hills south of Newark appear to be in a valley, while those farther east appear to loom up above them. From this elevation I selected some seven or eight objective points of elevation, lying to the south and southwest, and ranging from one to six miles distant from this point of observation, on which I thought there should be mounds or watch-towers to effect a complete view of the whole face of the country, especially to overlook the great valley of the Pataskala river above Hebron, but on none of which did I know of the existence of any artificial works.

Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Union Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.