Chillin' at Stubbs' place: Ohio's Hopewell's grand monument

Chillin' at Stubbs' place: Ohio's Hopewell's grand monument

Pop in to see the Stubbs Earthworks, Ohio's Hopewell trademark, neatly nestled along the Little Miami. Part of a groovy network of earthworks, these bad boys hosted the gang for shindigs, rituals, and commerce, dating back between 100 BCE and 500 CE.

Nestled amongst the leafy greens of Morrow, Warren County, Ohio, you'll find the Stubbs Earthworks - a major hangout for the Hopewell tribe. These aren't your average backyard structures, they're laid out along the Little Miami River, and they're a part of a slick network of intricate earthworks scattered across southern Ohio. They'd've been the place to be for summer bash-ins, sacred ceremonies, farewell parties, and commercial hotspots for the traveling folks. By the time the clock ticked 100 CE, Stubbs had seen better times, but the geometric precision and colossal scale of these works hint that, back then, they were part of some legendary earth-shaping crew. Prehistoric North America, still impressin' us today.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons

Written by Friendly Jane

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