Infirmary Mound

Infirmary Mound is located about three miles south of Granville, Ohio on Ohio State Route 37. The mound now lies within Infirmary Mound Park, a 316-acre recreation area that is part of the Licking County Park District. If you follow the Google map of the park shown in the photos, you can follow the road with the yellow dots on the map back to the horse arena. There is parking just past the arena. The mound is on the other side of the arena.

Recent human activity has severely damaged Infirmary Mound; decades of farming have left the mound low and severely eroded. Today it stands only 2 to 3 feet in height and is about 70 feet in diameter. The mound is difficult to discern from the surrounding terrain, appearing as a small rise near the southern edge of the park due to the cultivation of the area as farmland and the accompanying erosion. The era of the mound’s construction is unknown.

Image: Detail of Granville Township from 1866 Atlas of Licking County that shows Infirmary Mound southeast of the village.