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Sketch of Fairmount Mound and Church from 1875 Atlas of Licking County

Fairmount Mound is sited just north of the National Road (US-40) at Fairmount Church on a road of the same name. The large burial mound is in part attributed to the Hopewell cultural period and, like other Native-American mounds, it has become incorporated into the modern landscape as a sacred space. ^[1] Sitting very close to the mound is Fairmount Presbyterian Church, and the area around the mound became a burial site for American settlers in the area in the mid-nineteenth century. This reuse of the sacred space has helped preserve this fifteen-foot high and eighty-foot wide, prehistoric structure. ^[2] The church was organized in 1834 by Rev. Jonathan Cable and built a building erected in 1835. ^[3] The same cannot be said for the numerous embankments and mounds in the surrounding area, which have been generally destroyed through human activity. ^[4]

Fairmount Mound and cemetery as they appeared in a photograph from 1904

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References

1. ↑ Pacheco, P. "The Legacy of the Licking River Basin Moundbuilders," Vanishing Heritage, (1992), 23-25.
2. ↑ Woodward and Mcdonald, Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley, (2002), 185-186.
3. ↑ Hill, N. History of Licking County, Ohio, (1881), 496
4. ↑ Hill, N. History of Licking County, Ohio, (1881), 420.