Octagon Open House | October 17, 2021

October 17, 2021

PDF of Octagon Open House Flyer.
English OCR Text Enabled.

The site will be open daylight to dusk. 

For health and safety reasons, there will be no guided tours. Ohio History Connection staff will be on hand from noon to 4 p.m. to answer questions. Please practice social distancing and wear a mask while on site.

Associate Professor John N. Low [Pokagon Band of Potawatomi] and Director of the Newark Earthworks Center will be leading a tour of the Octagon at 2 PM.

Everyone is welcome and please join us!! See you there!

Dr. Low will also be leading a tour of the Newark Earthworks Center Exhibit at the LeFevre Art Gallery  on the OSU Newark Campus at 4 PM.

LeFevre Art Gallery

Questions? low.89@osu.edu

The Octagon State Memorial is one of the most spectacular surviving remnants of the Newark Earthworks. The Octagon is connected to a perfectly circular enclosure 1,054 feet in diameter. The architecture of the Octagon Earthworks encodes a sophisticated understanding of geometry and astronomy. It is a National Historical Landmark and is on track to become a World Heritage site! Portions of the Octagon Earthworks is open to the public during daylight hours 365 days a year, but much of the site is used as a private golf course for most of the year, so access is restricted. Four times each year, however, golfing is suspended and the entire site is made available to the general public.

For more information, visit: https://www.ohiohistory.org/participate/event-calendar/newark-earthworks/octagon-earthworks-open-house-(7) .