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Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks
UNESCO World Heritage Site
	Mounds at Mound City - one of eight earthworks included in the site
Criteria	(i)(iii)
Reference	1689
Inscription	2023 (45th Session)

	Mount Vernon Site
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The site in 2011
Location	Posey County, Indiana
Coordinates	37°54′48″N 87°56′23″W / 37.91333°N 87.93972°W
Built	~100 AD
NRHP reference No.	95001542
Added to NRHP	11 January 1996

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The Mount Vernon Site, also known as the GE Mound, is a Hopewell site near Mount Vernon in southwest Indiana. The site was discovered in 1988 during road construction at a General Electric plastic manufacturing facility. The mound was partially leveled, used for road fill, and subject to widespread looting shortly after its discovery, resulting in a contentious and precedent-setting prosecution under the Archeological Resources Protection Act.^[1] It was one of the five largest recorded Hopewell mounds before its destruction.^[2]

Characteristics[edit]

Part of the Crab Orchard Culture, the mound was 125 m (410 ft) long, 50 m (160 ft) wide, and 6 m (20 ft) tall.

Discovery and Looting[edit]

Multiple parties including the landowner, General Electric; Federal Government; State Government; and Native American tribes objected to the treatment of the site.

World Heritage Listing[edit]

The monument consists of eight Hopewell sites throughout southern Ohio.^[3]

ID	Name	Location	Coordinates
1689-001	Octagon Earthworks	Newark, Ohio	40°3′13.17″N 82°26′45.82″W / 40.0536583°N 82.4460611°W / 40.0536583; -82.4460611
1689-002	Great Circle Earthworks	Newark, Ohio	40°2′28.44″N 82°25′48.43″W / 40.0412333°N 82.4301194°W / 40.0412333; -82.4301194
1689-003	Hopeton Earthworks	Chillicothe, Ohio	39°23′5.25″N 82°58′44.96″W / 39.3847917°N 82.9791556°W / 39.3847917; -82.9791556
1689-004	Mound City	Chillicothe, Ohio	39°22′35.36″N 83°0′14.36″W / 39.3764889°N 83.0039889°W / 39.3764889; -83.0039889
1689-005	High Bank Works	Chillicothe, Ohio	39°17′54.82″N 82°55′6.56″W / 39.2985611°N 82.9184889°W / 39.2985611; -82.9184889
1689-006	Hopewell Mound Group	Chillicothe, Ohio	39°21′39.54″N 83°5′36.14″W / 39.3609833°N 83.0933722°W / 39.3609833; -83.0933722
1689-007	Seip Earthworks	Bainbridge, Ohio	39°14′14.89″N 83°13′11.37″W / 39.2374694°N 83.2198250°W / 39.2374694; -83.2198250
1689-008	Fort Ancient	Oregonia, Ohio	39°24′12.1″N 84°5′33.18″W / 39.403361°N 84.0925500°W / 39.403361; -84.0925500

^ Munson, Cheryl Ann; Jones, Marjorie Melvin; Fry, Robert E. (January 1995). "The GE Mound: An ARPA Case Study" (PDF). American Antiquity. 60 (1): 131–159 – via JSTOR.
^ Lynott, Mark (2014). Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio. Oxbow Books. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-78297-754-4.
^ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2024-05-26.

[1] Munson, Cheryl Ann; Jones, Marjorie Melvin; Fry, Robert E. (January 1995). "The GE Mound: An ARPA Case Study" (PDF). American Antiquity. 60 (1): 131–159 – via JSTOR.

[:1-2] Lynott, Mark (2014). Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio. Oxbow Books. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-78297-754-4.

[3] Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2024-05-26.

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