GRAVE CREEK MOUND
Archaeological Site — Moundsville, West Virginia
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/grave-creek-mound-moundsville-west-virginia/

62-foot Adena burial mound across the street from the old penitentiary.

Grave Creek Mound is an archaeological site in Moundsville, West Virginia. 62-foot Adena burial mound across the street from the old penitentiary. HauntHunt files it with archaeological sites, sacred landscapes and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.

Grave Creek Mound is the largest conical mound in the Western Hemisphere — the 62-foot Adena burial mound built 250-150 BC from 57,000 tons of earth carried in three million basket-loads. Meriwether Lewis stopped to see it in 1803; amateurs tunneled into it in 1838 and found the burial vaults.
The mound was the landscape — the centerpiece of the Grave Creek Flats complex that once covered the bottomland with mounds and earthworks, most destroyed by farmers and treasure hunters. The 1838 excavation found two vaults: one person with 1,700 beads and copper bracelets, a couple with an atlatl weight.
The mound is still there — the National Historic Landmark, the museum beside it, the town named for the mound that's older than the city around it. The file keeps the mound: the 2,000-year-old earthwork, the 1838 tunnels, and the largest conical mound on the continent.
Grave Creek Mound is the archive's Adena file — the hemisphere's largest conical mound, the burial vaults, and the earthwork that named the town.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Grave Creek Mound is the archive's Adena file — the largest conical mound in the hemisphere, the 1838 excavation, and the earthwork that's the town's namesake.
A mound that took three million baskets keeps its dead — the file's suggestion being that Grave Creek's hold is the vaults: the beads and the bracelets, the moat and the causeway, and the mound that's the Adena's monument.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Constructed 250–150 BCE by the Adena culture; two burial chambers were excavated in 1838. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Grave Creek Mound' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Grave Creek Mound — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_Creek_Mound

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