Newark Earthworks Center Receives Scenic Ohio Award!

Newark Earthworks Center Interim Director Marti Chaatsmith and

 former director Dick Shiels receive the 2016 Scenic Ohio Award.

The Newark Earthworks Center is proud to announce it is one of six organizations to

receive a 2016 Scenic Ohio Award in recognition of their collective work to preserve

earthworks sites in Ohio. These earthworks sites are the Newark Earthworks,

Great Serpent Mound, Fort Ancient and Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks. The 2016

Scenic Ohio Award recipients also include National Park Service, Ohio History

Connection, Dayton Society of Natural History, Arc of Appalachia

and Explore Licking County.

The Scenic Ohio Awards recognize community organizations, government agencies, 

and individuals who have improved, conserved, protected and enhanced

Ohio's scenic resources.

Ohio's role as an integral cultural crossroads throughout history is exemplified by unique American Indian earthworks. Ohio has two current American Indian World Heritage

nominations, the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks and Serpent Mound. The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks consists of three major sites from across Ohio: the Newark

Earthworks, Hopewell Culture National Historic Park, and Fort Ancient State Memorial.

All were constructed during the Hopewell Cultural period 2,000 years ago (100  B.C. - 400 AD)

and are noted for their geometrical precision and enormous scale. At a quarter of a

mile long, Serpent Mound is the largest documented surviving example of an

ancient effigy mound in the world. 

Ohio's earthworks are poised to join such cultural icons as the Pyramids of Giza,

the Great Wall of China, Stonehenge and the Acropolis as World Heritage Sites through

the nomination process of UNESCO. The World Heritage Program was established to

recognize and encourage the protection of the world's most important cultural and natural treasures. Over 1,000 sites have been inscribed; only 23 of them in the United States.

 For more information,
Visit:

• 2016 Scenic Ohio Awards 
• World Heritage Ohio
• Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks
• Serpent Mound
• UNESCO World Heritage
• About
• Ancient Ohio Trail
• Fort Ancient
• Mound City
• Newark Earthworks
• Serpent Mound
• Arc of Appalachia
• Fort Hill
• Junction Earthworks
• Serpent Mound
• Fort Ancient Archaeological Park
• National Park Service
• Hopewell Culture National Historic Park