Ellis Mounds

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Ellis Mounds
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Overview from the north

Location:	Within the triangle formed by Hillview Rd., Wolford-Maskill Rd., and State Route 4^[2]
Nearest city:	Marysville, Ohio
Coordinates:	40°17′15″N 83°20′56″W / 40.28750°N 83.34889°W / 40.28750; -83.34889Coordinates: 40°17′15″N 83°20′56″W / 40.28750°N 83.34889°W / 40.28750; -83.34889
Area:	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	74001638^[1]
Added to NRHP:	July 30, 1974

The Ellis Mounds are a complex of Native American mounds located near Marysville in Union County, Ohio, United States.^[1] These three mounds form an east-west line on a small ridgeline in a farm field. Believed to have been built by Hopewellian peoples, the mounds are important because they may reveal information about daily life in the Hopewell culture. While the mortuary customs of the Hopewell are well known, other aspects of their culture are little understood; consequently, a site with the potential of yielding information about such aspects is valuable indeed. Furthermore, the location of the mounds outside of the Hopewellian heartland farther south may demonstrate the spread of Hopewell influence.^[2]

In 1974, the archaeological significance of the Ellis Mounds was recognized when they were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[1]

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
^ ^a ^b Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 12 St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 1362.

v t e Hopewellian peoples

Woodland period List of Hopewell sites Mound builder (people) List of archaeological periods (North America)

Ohio Hopewell	Beam Farm Benham Mound Cary Village Site Cedar-Bank Works Dunns Pond Mound Ellis Mounds Ety Enclosure Ety Habitation Site Fort Ancient Fortified Hill Works Great Hopewell Road High Banks Works Hopeton Earthworks Hopewell Culture National Historical Park Indian Mound Cemetery Keiter Mound Marietta Earthworks Moorehead Circle Mound of Pipes Nettle Lake Mound Group Newark Earthworks Oak Mounds Orators Perin Village Site Pollock Works Portsmouth Earthworks Rocky Fork Enclosures Rocky Fork Mounds Seip Earthworks and Dill Mounds District Shawnee Lookout Tremper Mound and Works Williamson Mound Archeological District

Crab Orchard culture	Hubele Site Mann Site O'byams Fort site Rockwell Mound Yankeetown Site

Goodall Focus	Goodall Site Norton Mound Group

Havana Hopewell culture	Albany Mounds State Historic Site Dickson Mounds Mound House site Naples Mound 8 Rockwell Mound Sinnissippi Mounds Toolesboro Mound Group

Kansas City Hopewell	Cloverdale archaeological site Renner Village Archeological Site Trowbridge Archeological Site

Marksville culture	Crooks Mound Grand Gulf Mound Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site Mott Archaeological Preserve

Miller culture	Bynum Mound and Village Site Ingomar Mound Miller Site Pharr Mounds Pinson Mounds

Point Peninsula Complex	Lewiston Mound Serpent Mounds Park LeVescounte Mounds

Swift Creek culture Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture	Crystal River Archaeological State Park Etowah Indian Mounds Leake Mounds Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park Miner's Creek site Pierce Site Swift Creek mound site Third Gulf Breeze Yearwood site Yent Mound

Other Hopewellian peoples	Armstrong culture Copena culture Fourche Maline culture Laurel Complex Saugeen Complex Old Stone Fort (Tennessee)

Exotic trade items	Copper Galena Mica Fresh water pearls Obsidian Pipestone Sea shells

Related topics Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley Black drink burial mound Calumet (pipe) Effigy mound Hopewell pottery Horned Serpent Eastern Agricultural Complex Underwater panther

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v t e National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Ohio

Historic district	Marysville Historic District

Other properties	Ellis Mounds Elmwood Place The Fort Gilcrist House Dr. David W. Henderson House Reed Covered Bridge

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, Ohio and List of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio