Cadillac Man Reports on the Mound City in Ohio at Chillicothe

Welcome to the park and you can see some mounds in the distance.

This beauty is probably more like the kind of mound you were hoping to see and these are tiny relative to Cahokia but they were all over the place in Ohio.  There has been tremendous damage to the mounds over time and in some cases little remains.


These pics were taken at Mound City, also known as Chillicothe, Ohio. 

This is a park with multiple mounds dedicated to the Indians that built mounds here around the time of Julius Caesar.

The sign if you blow it hope tells a little about the Hopewell Indians that built these mounds. Chillicothe was also a sacred place for the Indians that lived in Ohio during the 17 and 1800s. It then became the capital city of Ohio before Columbus.

Ohio has many, many Indian mounds. There are some in Cincinnati, a large one in Dayton and the famous Serpentine Mound. There is a small one in a park within walking distance of me. UH!

- Cadillac Man


The point of this missive and one earlier about Cahokia is the typical image of Indians as nomadic people who slept in quaint little villages of teepees is not fully accurate since there were much greater organized civilizations and they were known since some still existed in colonial times.  (Ithaka:  Cahokia: An Ancient Civilization in the United States)

- Insert lengthy editorial on these magnificent civilizations which were wiped out by the colonials -


"National Treasure 2" didn't increase any awareness of Cahokia except as some kind of magical keyword.  Hollywood's responsibility to present anything close to accurate about the Indian Nation has been shirked at just about every possible turn.

I have enjoyed the National Treasure movies because they're clever and they actually bring quite a bit of history but it's still telling which parts they leave out.  Why?


Thanks, Cadillac Man.  It's cool to see you got the original article and it brought something home to you.  History and Anthropology merge quite a bit in the pursuit of what really happened.

Uh, Uh, Uh!

Note:  that was the signal between the lads in the uni days and sometimes there would be such a chorus of it from repetition by those drunken wastrels that it sounded like a pack of barking seals which I'm sure was all the more melodious to the neighborhood when it typically occurred at two or three in the morning.

Note:  it wasn't much after this time when I decided alcohol and I were really not friends and I rarely drank anything of that nature from then forward.