Spruce Run Earthworks

Spruce Run Earthworks
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Nearest city:	Galena, Ohio
NRHP Reference#:	73001431
Added to NRHP:	July 16, 1973^[1]

The Spruce Run Earthworks is an archaeological site located in the central part of the U.S. state of Ohio, in Delaware County. It is believed to have been built by the Adena culture.

According to the National Register of Historic Places, the location of this property is restricted information, therefore all details including the address, verbal boundary descriptions, maps or anything information in the inventory-nomination form is redacted. From the report:

"The Spruce Run Earthworks are located on a steep-sided peninsula of land [location removed]. The creation of Hoover Reservoir in the early 1950s did not raise the water level enough to endanger the site. This [redacted] earthwork and mound complex was excavated, in part, by John T. Short in 1879. His report was submitted to Professor P.W. Putnam of the Peabody Museum where it remained unpublished until 1947.

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"Today the large mound [redacted}. Short dug a trench [redacted]. This accounts for the difference in todays [sic] dimensions and those of 1879. The scar of this excavation is still in eviden. The small mound [redacted].

"Portions of the embankment remain on the [redacted] of the mound, [redacted] were leveled in driveway and house construction. The graded way still slopes down to the edge of the water although it is somewhat rutted by erosion. No evidence remains of the low circular earthworks [redacted] which has long been leveled by cultivation. However, arial photographs would probably reveal its exact location.

"This particular area is now becoming residential. The large open areas that still remain could through test excavation possible reveal habitation sites associated with the earthworks.

"The Spruce Run Earthworks and Mound were constructed by the prehistoric Adena Indians, although at the time of Short's excavation this culture had not been named or delineated. By recording his findings and storing the artifacts in the Peabody Museum, Short has enabled the site to now be classified as Adena. His report includes a number of firsts in Ohio; the first record of an Adena site in Delaware County, the first possible 'graded way' in Adena association, and the first record of Adena incised pottery.

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Adena Culture

List of Adena culture sites · Woodland period · Mound builder (people) · List of archaeological periods (North America)

Ohio Sites	Adena Mound · Austin Brown Mound · Arledge Mounds I and II · Beam Farm · Clemmons Mound · Conrad Mound Archeological Site · Coon Hunters Mound · George Deffenbaugh Mound · Enon Mound · Fortner Mounds · Great Mound · Highbanks Metropolitan Park Mounds I and II · Hillside Haven Mound · Hodgen's Cemetery Mound · Horn Mound · Hurley Mound · Jackson Mound · Karshner Mound · Kinzer Mound · Luthor List Mound · Miamisburg Mound · Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound · Old Maid's Orchard Mound · Orators Mound · Carl Potter Mound · Reeves Mound · D.S. Rose Mound · Ross Trails Adena Circle · Short Woods Park Mound · Snead Mound · Spruce Run Earthworks · David Stitt Mound · Story Mound (Cincinnati) · Story Mound (Chillicothe) · Wolf Plains Group · Zaleski Mound Group

Kentucky Sites	Biggs Site · Gaitskill Mound · Mount Horeb Earthworks Complex · Round Hill Mound ·

West Virginia Sites	Criel Mound · Grave Creek Mound ·

Indiana Sites	Mounds State Park ·

Related topics · Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley · burial mound · Eastern Agricultural Complex · Hopewell tradition

Pre-Columbian North America

Archaeological cultures	North American pre-Columbian chronology – Adena – Alachua – Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) – Baytown – Belle Glade – Buttermilk Creek Complex – Caborn-Welborn – Calf Creek – Caloosahatchee – Clovis – Coles Creek – Deptford – Folsom – Fort Ancient – Fort Walton – Fremont – Glades – Glacial Kame – Hopewell (List of Hopewell sites) – Hohokam – Leon-Jefferson – Mississippian (List of Mississippian sites) – Mogollon – Monongahela – Old Cordilleran – Oneota – Paleo-Arctic – Paleo-Indians – Patayan – Plano – Plaquemine – Poverty Point – Prehistoric Southwest – Red Ocher – Santa Rosa-Swift Creek – St. Johns – Steed-Kisker – Tchefuncte – Tocobaga – Troyville

Archaeological sites	Angel Mounds – Bandelier National Monument – The Bluff Point Stoneworks – Cahokia – Chaco Canyon – Casa Grande – Coso Rock Art District – Eaker – Effigy Mounds National Monument – Etowah Indian Mounds – Eva – Folsom Site – Fort Ancient – Fort Center – Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument – Holly Bluff Site – Hopewell Culture National Historical Park – Kincaid Mounds – Kolomoki – Manitou Cliff Dwellings – Marksville – Meadowcroft Rockshelter – Mesa Verde – Moorehead Circle – Moundville – Mummy Cave – Nodena Site – Ocmulgee National Monument – Old Stone Fort – Parkin Park – Pinson Mounds – Portsmouth Earthworks – Poverty Point – Pueblo Bonito – Rock Eagle – Rock Hawk – Salmon Ruins – Serpent Mound – Spiro Mounds – SunWatch – Taos Pueblo – Toltec Mounds – Town Creek Indian Mound – Winterville

Miscellaneous	Ballgame – Black drink – Buhl woman – Calumet – Chunkey – Clovis point – Container Revolution – Eastern Agricultural Complex – Eden point – Effigy mound – Falcon dancer – Folsom point – Green Corn Ceremony – Horned Serpent – Kennewick man – Kiva – Metallurgy – Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing – Medicine wheel – Mound builders – N.A.G.P.R.A. – Norse colonization of the Americas – Piasa – Pueblo dwellings – Southeastern Ceremonial Complex – Three Sisters agriculture – Thunderbird – Underwater panther

Related: Genetic history · Indigenous Portal of North America · Pre-Columbian era

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Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly Vol. 56 No. 2

Spruce Run Earthworks

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