Moundbuilders State Memorial

99 Cooper Avenue
Newark, OH 43055
740-344-1920 1-800-600-7174

"The Newark Earthworks are the most extensive, numerous and diversified in style and character, of any within the state."

--Henry Howe
1888

Moundbuilders State Memorial preserves the Great Circle earthwork built by the Hopewell culture approximately 2000 years ago. The circle is nearly 1200 feet in diameter and was used as a vast ceremonial center by its builders.

The Great Circle is one part of the Newark Earthworks which was the largest system of connected geometric earthworks built anywhere in the world. Octagon State Memorial and Wright Earthworks State Memorial are both additional local sites that preserve other features of this majestic remnant of Prehistoric Ohio.

LOCATION

Moundbuilders State Memorial is on the south side of Newark, in Licking County, off of State Route 79 between Parkview Drive and Cooper Street.