South Charleston Mound, South Charleston, WV (6)

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South Charleston Mound, South Charleston, WV (6)
South Charleston Mound, South Charleston, WV (6)

**South Charleston Mound** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 70000655, date listed 19701015

US 60, in city park

South Charleston, WV (Kanawha County)

The South Charleston Mound, originally known as the Criel Mound, is the second largest in the State. Most modern archeologists--who have studied the material taken from this mound believe it represents some mingling of Adena and Hopewell traits and therefore stands as a monument to both of these cultures so important in the Ohio River drainage. (1)

The Criel Mound, also known as the South Charleston Mound, is a Native American burial mound located in South Charleston, West Virginia. It is one of the few surviving mounds of the Kanawha Valley Mounds that were probably built in the Woodland period after 500 B.C. The mound was built by the Adena culture, probably around 250–150 BC, and lay equidistant between two “sacred circles”, earthwork enclosures each 556 feet (169 m) in diameter. It was originally 33 feet (10 m) high and 173 feet (53 m) in diameter at the base, making it the second-largest such burial mound in the state of West Virginia. (The Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville is the largest.) (2)

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/70000655.pdf

(2) Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criel_Mound

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