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BUCKEYE LAKE, OHIO - A retaining wall in the west bank of Buckeye Lake, in the State of Ohio, is crumbling. The stones holding the water back at the present time came from a large stone Indian Burial Mound. The mound was located south of I-70 and east of state Rt. 13. (between Columbus and Zanseville, Ohio). The state of Ohio has decided to drive steel plates in the water edge and dump fill dirt behind it. This will cover these sacred stones up for ever.

According to an article in a Smithsonian Institute paper, The author Charles Whittlesey wrote that when he visited there in 1838, the mound had been originally forty feet high with a base of one hundred eight feet in diameter. The stone had been removed and a hugh cavity was left. See DESCRIPTIONS OF ANCIENT WORKS IN OHIO, 1850.

The stones were hauled to Buckeye Lake and used as a retaining wall. The men working on the canal were ordered, by the state, to haul the stones and build the wall. They hauled over a thousand wagon loads of stone.

The Native American Alliance of Ohio has been working with the Department of Energy for 5 years to get the land put into a Memorial Indian Park, to bury the old ones now laying in museums and Universities. The land will remain federal property. We want these stones taken out of the water and hauled to Cincinnati, Ohio to be used to make memorial markers for the burial grounds.

We need letters written to, Edward Frank, P.O. 488 Millersport, Ohio 43046. Please take time to set a few words down on paper and send them to Mr. Frank, it will mean so much to the project here in Ohio.