*Photo courtesy of Google
My next stop along this road trip takes me to the first of two Native American effigy mounds in Ohio. The Alligator Effigy Mound resides in a residential area. Atop a grassy hill surrounded by homes, the shape of a four-legged creature with a long tail can just barely be discerned. It was likely meant to represent something other than an alligator, but for whatever reason that is the name it has taken on. I walk around the effigy a bit and I'm not convinced I would even know it was here were I not looking for it. It is believed to be the work of the Hopewell People sometime between 100 and 400 C.E., but Archaeologists are not entirely sure of it's origins.
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