Mound Cemetery

An active cemetery containing one of the largest Adena burial mounds in Ohio — a conical earthwork approximately 30 feet high that the Ohio Company settlers deliberately preserved when they laid out Marietta in 1788. Mound Cemetery contains the graves of more signers of the original Ohio Land Company and more officers of the Continental Army than any other cemetery in the United States. Twenty-six members of the original Ohio Company are buried here. The deliberate preservation of the Native mound alongside the graves of the founding settlers was itself a statement about the new community.