Dixon Mound

Dixon Mound, also known as Williams, or Williamson Mound, stands in the village of Homer. The mound is 15 feet high and 80 feet across.

The village of Homer in Burlington township was founded in an area with numerous mounds and earthworks of various sizes, many of which have been lost due to recent human activity. [1]

The construction era of the Dixon mound is unknown because the site has not been excavated, making the culture that built the site impossible to identify with certainty. The shape and size of the structure suggest, however, that it was built by the Adena culture (800 BCE-1 CE). Situated on South Street in Homer near the public library, the mound can be viewed from the street but it lies on private property and there is no public access. [2]

The History of Licking County, Ohio by N.N. Hill which was published in 1881 had this to say about the mound;” But the largest and most entire [mound] is on the residence of Edwin Williams esq.; this has recently been measured and found to be about thirty rods [495 feet] in circumference at the base, and nearly 30 feet in height, having as usual, a hollow place at the summit, about 25 feet across. Perhaps fifty years ago, a party of five or six setters agreed to examine this mound in search of curiosities. They dug down about fifteen feet, but found nothing of value.”

1. Brister, E., Centennial History of the City of Newark and Licking County, Ohio, (1909), 342-343

2. Woodward and Mcdonald, Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley, (2002), 185-186