• This image from the 1915 Ohio Archaeological Atlas shows the perfect form this mound had even after the initial round of destructive alterations for modern burials. Later changes lowered the mound drastically.

  • The original mound of Mound View Cemetery is officially known as the McLaughlin Mound. In addition to an ancient Adena burial at the base of the mound, a later historical American Indian burial was discovered at the base of the mound, believed to be Chief Sac-a-manc.

  • When 18-year old Henry Cooper died in 1894, his family arranged for him to be buried at the foot of the mound. When sextons dug the grave, they discovered bones and grave goods that might be the remains of the feared Delaware Indian chief Sac-A-Manc.

  • An image from the 1915 Ohio Archaeological Atlas shows the various layers of the mound as it was excavated in 1890 by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

  • This spear point was recently discovered on the McLaughlin Mound by grounds keeping staff at Mound View Cemetery. Mansfield archaeologist Mark Hersman confirms that it is consistent with Adena style.

  • Though nowhere as old as the mound (which is probably 2,000 to 2,500 years old), the ancient oak tree that overlooks the mound at least predates the modern cemetery.

  • An old wall of mostly empty crypts was built into one side of the McLaughlin Mound. The top of the mound was apparently lopped off for later burials and monuments. Since 1972, the mound has been on the National Register of Historic Places, which will hopefully limit any further destruction.