Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Mound

Archaeological site in Ohio, United States

United States historic place


Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Mound
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Looking toward the mound from Huffman Prairie
39°47′12.3″N 84°5′4″W / 39.786750°N 84.08444°W / 39.786750; -84.08444
Area	Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha)
NRHP reference No.	72001015^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 23, 1972

The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Mound, designated 33GR31,^[2] is a Native American mound near the city of Dayton in Greene County, Ohio, United States. Named for its location on an Air Force facility, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the mound is an archaeological site.^[3]

The mound lies on a bluff sitting above generally flat terrain; it measures 86 feet (26 m) in diameter and slightly more than 8 feet (2.4 m) tall.^[3] Located about 0.62 miles (1.00 km) south of the memorial to the Wright brothers on Huffman Prairie,^[2] it is believed to have been built by people of the prehistoric Adena culture, who inhabited southwestern Ohio approximately between 500 BC and AD 400. Pieces of limestone are present near the mound's surface; this may indicate that the builders covered it with limestone and that natural forces such as wind have since covered the stone with the soil that now forms the mound's surface.^[3]

In 1972, the mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological importance; it was the fourth Greene County location to be added to the Register, following Huffman Prairie and the two earthworks sites at Indian Mound Reserve near Cedarville.^[1] While it has never been excavated,^[3] it was subjected to a range of geophysical survey methods in mid-1996. Hoping to discover the locations of buried bodies and to learn about the soil within the mound, the surveyors used techniques such as ground-penetrating radar and found evidence of the mound's stratigraphy, as well as revealing evidence of unidentified features in and around it.^[2] Future excavations, if conducted, are expected to increase knowledge of Adena death customs and daily life.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d P Street Mound, OH (33GR31), North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics, University of Arkansas, n.d. Accessed 2013-01-06.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 548.

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v t e National Register of Historic Places in Greene County, Ohio
National Historic Landmarks	Huffman Field Col. Charles Young House
Historic districts	Downtown Xenia Historic District East Second Street District Grinnell Mill Historic District Main Street Historic District McDonald Farm Waterstreet Historic District Yellow Springs Historic District
Other properties	Antioch Hall, North and South Halls Ballard Road Covered Bridge Bank of Xenia George Barrett Concrete House Bath Township Consolidated School Berryhill-Morris House C.N. & I. Department Power House Carnegie Library (Old Wilberforce University Campus) Cedarville Opera House Alexander Conner House Dean Family Farm Emery Hall Fairborn Theatre Harper Mausoleum and George W. Harper Memorial Entrance Hollencamp House Jamestown Opera House Mercer Log House Millen-Schmidt House Old Chillicothe Site The Old Hotel Orators Mound Samuel N. Patterson House Pollock Works Whitelaw Reid House South School Whitehall Farm Benjamin Whiteman House Williamson Mound State Memorial Wright Brothers Memorial Mound Group Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Mound
Formerly listed	Homewood Cottage William S. Scarborough House
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Greene County, Ohio and List of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio