Shrum Mound

During Mike's month off, we were definitely running out of free things to do. We did a little research, and decided to visit this:

This is Shrum Mound, a Native American burial mound right in the middle of Columbus. We had actually tried to visit it before, but the directions we got from Google Maps did not get us there. Mike got better directions this time, and it turns out, it is only five minutes away from our house.

This mound was built by the prehistoric Adena Indians who lived in Ohio from 800 B.C. to about 1 A.D. It is kind of a sad historical sight. It consists of a fence, a sign with little information, and a mound. However, it was still cool to see something so old just around the corner. Bailey was a little scared of it. We told her Indians were buried in it, and I guess that worried her. I don't know if she thought they were going to pop out or what.

We decided to make the day Indian Mound day, knowing that there was at least one more mound in Columbus. We typed "mound" into our recovered GPS, and several entries popped up. "Indian Mound Park" sounded like the place we needed. After thirty minutes of driving, we ended up and "Indian Mound Park" which is actually a rec center. There was no mound in sight. How can they name a place "Indian Mound Park" and not actually have an Indian Mound? Especially when it is right next to "Indian Mound Apartments" and "Indian Mound something else." We even stopped and asked someone if there was an Indian Mound nearby. There wasn't.

The Indian mounds in Columbus are proving to be very elusive...