Newark Earthworks Center's Blog: Ohio Supreme Court to decide future of historic Newark Earthworks

Octagon State Memorial Map with key features labeled. Image Courtesy of the Ancient Ohio Trail.

Octagon State Memorial Map.
Image Courtesy of the Ancient Ohio Trail.

May 13, 2021.

Dennis Biviano, of Spectrum News, has written an exploratory article about the pending decision of the Ohio Supreme Court and the current rental lease of Ohio's officially recognized state prehistoric monument, the Newark Earthworks' Octagon State Memorial.

"[Descendant of the Eastern Band of] Cherokee professor of art education at Ohio State University, Dr. Christine Ballengee Morris has been an advocate for the Octagon Earthworks at Newark Earthworks for nearly three decades.

She also continues to fight for the mounds to be open to the public and deemed a World Heritage site.

“Access to the Octagon Mound has been the central key to all of this from the very beginning,” Ballengee Morris said. “It was because we wanted to use it, be there and invite people to come to this magnificent site, and the fact that it's the only earthen calendar in the world, is the Octagon Mound, and there's a golf course on it.” Since 1933, Ohio History Connection has owned the property, and leased it to the Moundbuilders Country Club. "

-Dennis Biviano, Spectrum News.

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