The Hopewell Culture National Historic Park, Chilicothe, Ohio, preserves a small portion of the mounds and earthworks which were built by the American Indians known as the Hopewell People, who thrived in the Ohio River Valley area from about 200 B.C. until 500 A.D. The site includes a modern Visitor Center where one may watch an orientation film, view museum exhibits and purchase books and other items of interest.
The earthworks preserved here are known as the Mound City Group. Guided tours are available, but when I visited the Park with my youngest son, Jeromy, we opted for a self guided tour. The mounds and exhibits offer insight into the social, ceremonial, political and economic life of the Hopewell People, who vanished many centuries before the first European explorers came to this area.
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