 Picture Courtesy of Joseph Landis
One of the largest groups of mounds in the United States once existed in Dunbar, Institute, & South Charleston. In 1883-84, Smithsonian workers recorded 50 mounds and at least 10 earthworks (low earth embankments in geometric forms). Great Smith Mound, 35 ft. high and 175 in diameter, stood in Dunbar. The mounds in Shawnee Reservation & downtown South Charleston are all that remain today of these prehistoric works.
West Virginia Historic Commission 1963
Dunbar, WV 25 at Shawnee Park, 1.7 miles west of Dunbar Exit Kanawha County West Virginia
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