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March 20, 2025

World Heritage Week—Seip Earthworks

Join us for a free ranger-guided tour! Two thousand years ago, the region between Seip Earthworks and Chillicothe was one of the most important cultural centers in eastern North America, for hundreds of years. Join us to learn more about this fascinating site.

March 20, 2025

World Heritage Week—Hopewell Mound Group

Join us for a free ranger-guided tour! While most Hopewell complexes were seemingly used for less than two centuries, evidence suggests that the Hopewell Mound Group maintained its significance as a ceremonial center throughout the entire era of the Hopewell Culture in Ohio, approximately 400 years. Extended use of these features indicates that the Hopewell […]

March 20, 2025

World Heritage Week—Hopeton Earthworks

Join us for a free ranger-guided tour! Hopeton Earthworks is paired with the Mound City Group as part of a vast and ancient Native American ceremonial landscape. Architecture includes earthen monuments memorializing ancestral shrines, and geometric enclosures aligned to the endless cycles of Sun and Moon. Around and under it all is an unseen archaeological […]

March 18, 2025

The 8th Wonder: Waterloo Wonders – A Special Documentary Screening

Included with general museum admission. A Q&A session will follow the screening. In the bleak and desolate days of the depression in the 1930s, the residents of Waterloo, Ohio, had little reason to be happy. In this rural Appalachian town, 20 miles outside of Ironton, residents had been hit hard with job looses and did […]

March 14, 2025

World Heritage Week—Octagon Earthworks

Join us for a full day of programming to wrap up World Heritage Week! View more activities taking place earlier in the week here. Schedule 11 a.m.– 2 p.m: Food trucks on site Poppy's Roadside Diner, Bite Back and Gyro Hero Noon: Guided tour of the Octagon Earthworks 3–4 p.m: Create-and-take activity for our young visitors. We […]

March 14, 2025

World Heritage Week—Great Circle Earthworks

At Noon, join us for a free guided tour led by Sarah Hinkelman, site manager of the Newark Earthworks and Flint Ridge. At 2 p.m., there will be a children’s storytime: “Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun” with a fun make-and-take activity for kids. (Ages 3–10) View more World Heritage Week programming here.

March 14, 2025

World Heritage Week—Fort Ancient

Join us for a free site tour with Ohio History Connection archaeologist Bill Kennedy. Tour lasts about an hour and a half to two hours. View more World Heritage Week programming here.

March 13, 2025

First Friday Monthly Tours

Take a walk through the museum and grounds of Fort Ancient with archaeologist Bill Kennedy of the Ohio History Connection. This walking tour gives an overview of pre-contact American Indians in and at Fort Ancient: one of the most outstanding and best-preserved Hopewell earthworks. Please meet in the lobby in front of the museum gift […]

March 12, 2025

Walking Tour: African American History along the Cincinnati Riverfront

Explore the deep significance of the Ohio River for Cincinnati’s African American history of resistance, achievement, and leadership from the 1800s through the 20th century. Connect to the history of Margaret Garner, Marian Spencer, James Bradley, Cincinnati’s Black Brigade and more. This walk will last just under 2 hours. Starts at the John Augustus […]

March 12, 2025

Celebrate Civic Season

Join in the new national tradition of Civic Season between Juneteenth and July 4th. This event is specifically designed for ages 18–30. Registration is required.