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among diff er ent Zoo and Aquarium is home to
Native groups more than 9,000 creatures and
spread over the television celebrity Jack Hanna
east ern US. As is Director Emeritus.
charac teristic The Franklin Park
of the culture, Conservatory and Botanical
the mounds Garden, built in 1895, has a
are arranged in bonsai and sculpture garden.
geo metric It also has indoor simulations
shapes, ringed of exotic climates.
by an earthen
The 1,348-ft (411-m) Serpent Mound wall. A visitor E Ohio History Center
center provides 1982 Velma Ave. Tel (614) 297-2300.
u Serpent Mound an in-depth look at the social Open 10am–5pm Wed–Sat, noon–
and economic life of the long- 5pm Sun. Closed most public hols.
3850 Rte 73, Peebles. Tel (800) 752- vanished Hopewell peoples, & (children under 6 free). 7
2757. Museum and Grounds: Open based on the archaeological ∑ ohiohistory.org/places/ohc
Apr–Oct: 10am–5pm daily; Nov–mid- work conducted here.
Dec, Mar: 10am–4pm Sat–Sun. 7 O Franklin Park Conserva tory
& Botanical Garden
The largest serpent-shaped 1777 E Broad St. Tel (614) 645-8733,
effigy mound in the US, the o Columbus (800) 214-7275. Open 10am–
1,348-ft- (411-m-) long Serpent * 711,000. ~ £ @ 5pm daily (until 8pm Wed).
Mound overlooks Brush Creek n 277 W Nationwide Blvd, Closed Thanksgiving, Dec 25.
in the Ohio River Valley. Although (614) 221-6623, (800) 354-2657. & (children under 3 free). 7
its exact age is unknown, research ∑ experiencecolumbus.org ∑ fpconservatory.org
suggests that the mound
was constructed between Ohio’s capital since 1816,
800 BC and AD 400 by the Columbus has grown from a p Berlin
ancient Adena people, Ohio’s sleepy, swampy lowland site * 3,100. @ n 35 N Monroe St,
earliest farming Native on the east bank of the Scioto Millersburg, (330) 674-3975, (877) 643-
American community. River to become a bustling 8824. ∑ visitamishcountry.com
The 5-ft- (1.5-m-) high, cultural, political, and economic
20-ft- (6-m-) wide mound center. Downtown’s central Much of Ohio’s large Amish
appears to represent an uncoiling feature is the Greek-Revival population is concentrated in
serpent, with a tightly coiled style Ohio Statehouse. Built Holmes County in the north-
tail at one end and a mouthlike between 1839 and 1861, the central part of the state, about
opening, swallowing an oval- structure is surmounted by 90 miles (145 km) northeast of
shaped egg, at the other. An a unique drum-shaped cupola Columbus. Berlin is the oldest
on-site museum describes marked by a 29-ft- (9-m-) village in Holmes County. Most
the mound’s history and its wide skylight. of its early settlers, originally from
protection under an 1888 law, The Ohio History Center is Germany or Switzerland, moved
the first in the US to safeguard the best place to begin the to Ohio after having first settled
important archaeological sites. exploration of Columbus. Its in Pennyslvania .
interactive displays trace Ohio’s Lying just outside Berlin village,
evolution from an 18th-century Schrock’s Amish Farm provides
i Hopewell Culture frontier outpost to its current a good overview of the reclusive
National Historical urban and industrial status. Amish, who have maintained
Park Nationally acclaimed attractions their simplified 19th-century way
include the COSI (Center of of life. The farm has a multimedia
16062 Rte 104, Chillicothe. Tel (740) Science and Industry) outdoor visitor center and offers a tour
774-1126. Open 8:30am–5pm daily science park and 300 interactive of a working farm, complete
(until 6pm Memorial Day to Labor indoor exhibits. The Columbus with freshly baked goods and
Day). Closed Jan 1, Thanksgiving, buggy rides.
Dec 25. 7 ∑ nps.gov/hocu
Visitors are requested to drive
carefully along the rural
Located in the Scioto River Valley, backroads and busier
this 120-acre (48-ha) park pre s- thoroughfares, out of respect
erves 23 Native American burial for the slow-moving, horse-
mounds built by the Hope well drawn carriages.
people, who lived here from 200
BC to AD 500. The Hopewell Schrock’s Amish Farm
culture, which emerged from the 4363 SR 39. Tel (330) 893-3232.
Adena culture, covers a broad Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Open Apr–Oct: 10am–5pm Mon–Fri,
network of beliefs and practices Garden, Columbus 10am–6pm Sat. & 7

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