Ferris Owen Mound

The Ferris Owen Mound presides over Evans Athletic Complex, north of Ohio State University at Newark campus off Sharon Valley Road. Originally several feet taller, the mound now stands around ten-feet high due to the agricultural activity of the past two centuries. The mound has not been excavated or dated, but was most likely built during the Adena cultural period of Ohio’s prehistory, making it more than 2,000 years old. The Adena are the oldest cultural group associated with mound construction in the Ohio Valley. The height of their culture spanned from 1000 BCE to 100 CE, followed by the Hopewell from 200 BCE to 500 CE, and then the Fort Ancient culture from 900 CE to 1750 CE.