Ohio sites make tentative U.S. list of world heritage nominations

February 04, 2008 17:13 EST

 

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Historic American Indian earthworks sites and Wright brothers' landmarks in Ohio are among 14 cultural and natural areas on a tentative list of U-S nominations for the World Heritage list.

 

Sites on the World Heritage list are deemed to have outstanding universal value. The U.S. list will serve as a source of nominations by the United States for the World Heritage list.

 

One of the three Ohio multi-site nominations that made the U.S. list is the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks. That consists of earthworks in the Seip Mound in Ross County, the Newark Earthworks in Licking County and Fort Ancient in Warren County about 30 miles northeast of Cincinnati.

 

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Both are certainly worthy particularly the underrated Hopewell culture.

Adams County site makes final cut for U.S. World Heritage list

By Deborah Daniels, Portsmouth Daily Times, February 3, 2008

 

As the United States prepares its new list of nominations to submit to the World Heritage List, the possibility looms for Serpent Mound in Adams County to join the ranks of Stonehenge in England, the Pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of China as a World Heritage Site.

 

In addition to Serpent Mound, the Ohio Historical Society announced two other Ohio nominations were made -- Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks and Dayton Aviation Sites, representing a total of 12 historical and prehistoric sites in the state. The three nominations are the most for any state.

 

"Ohio's nominations made the final cut in this competitive process, after an intensive public awareness campaign and tremendous support from Ohio citizens," said William K. Laidlaw Jr., executive director of the Ohio Historical Society. "To be ultimately recognized as a World Heritage Site will be an international honor for our state that would raise awareness of the sites, promote their preservation for future generations and advance regional economic development through increased tourism."

 

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Serpent Mound is fairly well known.

 

I recall years ago getting this Julian Cope CD (an old English new-waver), who was going off into some sort of pagan/earth worship thing (lyrically).  Anyway, I open the CD and what should be on the back cover of that little booklet but an aeriel pix of ye olde Serpent Mound!

 

But yes, ColDayMan is correct.  Mounds are nice, but these Hopewell things are complexes of mounds. But Serpent Mound isnt Hopewell, is it?

 

BTW, the UNESCO list is very Euro-centric.  The US could use a few more on the list.  I think the nomination of the Frank Lloyd Wright sites in Chicagoland was a solid nomination given Wrights influence on modern architecture, as on the European modernists (Wrights' work was quite influential across the pond) as much as here.  Indeed a collection of buildings of world cultural signifigance.

 

 

They've discovered Serpent Mound probably dates to around 1200 A.D, which would make it Fort Ancient culture. Well after Hopewell. However, some of the mounds located onsite do date much earlier.

 

One area that nearly got nominated was the town of Ripley, especially the riverfront area, for its influence on the Underground Railroad.

I visited the Great Serpent Mound of Ohio once about thirty years ago and vowed never to return again. This place is haunted, or so it seemed to me. Whoever they were these ancient architects were ahead of their time even by today"s standards. They functioned on a different wavelength or plane of existence that has been lost forever in this materialistic world of ours. Suffice it to say my perfectly timed visit made a profound impression on me that still haunts me to this day. Enjoy!

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