Flint Ridge State Memorial

	Flint Ridge State Memorial
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	A typical boulder at the site
Nearest city	Brownsville, Ohio
Coordinates	39°59′25″N 82°15′36″W / 39.990322°N 82.260004°W
Area	250 acres (100 ha)
NRHP reference No.	70000505
Added to NRHP	November 10, 1970

Flint Ridge State Memorial is a Native American flint quarry located in Hopewell Township, Licking County, Ohio, about three miles north of Brownsville at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Flint Ridge Road. Old quarry pits are visible, and a museum is on the site.

Flint is a variety of quartz and the flint on the ridge is the Vanport Limestone Member of the Allegheny Formation of Pennsylvanian age.^[2]^[3]

Flint Ridge contains quarry pits where all of the ancient people of Ohio came to get flint for both tools and weapons.^[4] Some archaeologists believe that the Hopewell culture traded the brightly colored flint from this area for materials from other areas of North America.^[5]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Rice, C.L., Kosanke, R.M., and Henry, T.W., 1994, Revision of nomenclature and correlations of some Middle Pennsylvanian units in the northwestern part of the Appalachian basin, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia, IN Rice, C.L., ed., Elements of Pennsylvanian stratigraphy, central Appalachian basin: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 294, p. 7-26.
^ DeLong, R. M., 1972, Bedrock Geology of the Flint Ridge Area, Licking and Muskingum Counties, Ohio: Ohio Division of Geological Survey Report of Investigations 84, color map with text.
^ Ohio Historical Society: Flint Ridge
^ Touring Ohio: Flint Ridge State Memorial

External links

Flint Ridge State Memorial - official site
FLINT - OHIO'S OFFICIAL GEMSTONE

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] Rice, C.L., Kosanke, R.M., and Henry, T.W., 1994, Revision of nomenclature and correlations of some Middle Pennsylvanian units in the northwestern part of the Appalachian basin, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia, IN Rice, C.L., ed., Elements of Pennsylvanian stratigraphy, central Appalachian basin: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 294, p. 7-26.

[3] DeLong, R. M., 1972, Bedrock Geology of the Flint Ridge Area, Licking and Muskingum Counties, Ohio: Ohio Division of Geological Survey Report of Investigations 84, color map with text.

[OhioHist-4] Ohio Historical Society: Flint Ridge

[TouringOhio-5] Touring Ohio: Flint Ridge State Memorial

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