Kent and I made a couple of interesting stops as we drove home from Kansas to Virginia.
As we were driving through Indiana we saw a sign advertising the Lincoln Boyhood Home National Historic Site.
We decided to pull in and look around, but didn't stay too long because there wasn't much to see.
The outside of the visitor's center had some large stone panels depicting scenes from Abraham Lincoln's life. Inside there were displays and facts about his boyhood, and life on the frontier during the time period.
Part of the park had an outline of the foundation of wood cabin where the Lincolns lived.
That night we drove in to Kentucky and spend the night in Lexington.
We saw on our map that the Serpent Mound wasn't too far out of our way, up in Ohio, so we made a detour to go to it.
The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348 foot
long, three foot high, prehistoric efficy mound on a pleateau of the Serpent
Mound crater. Not much is known about who built them or how they were built.
One theory is that they were created by the Adena culture, which flourished
from 800BC to 100AD.
In the visitor's center they had some displays showing what was found inside the mound when it was excavated.
Apparently they found bones found at various layers of the mound.
The serpent mound is unique among the mounds found throughout the heartland states because it's curved and represents an animal, a snake.
The best views would have been from about 50 feet up in the air, but here's what it looked like from ground level.
In the picture above you can see a viewing platform. We climbed up it (it wasn't very high) and the two pictures below were taken from a higher viewpoint. It's been interesting for us to learn more about the pre-Columbus cultures that lived on the North American continent.
You can see it was a nice day and the place wasn't crowded at all. We're glad we stopped.
After that we headed for Virginia and only stopped for gas and food. It was great to be home after being away for over 7 weeks!
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