Long before freeways and highways, early Ohioans built impressive network of trails, roads
Today, Ohio is crisscrossed by an intricate series of freeways, toll roads, and highways complemented by the roads, streets and alleys of our better populated places. It is a network that we take for granted even as it takes immense efforts by many people to keep these roads safe, passable and easy to use. Because these roads are generally well-paved and reasonably new, we often tend to forget how long they have been here.
Change came when Native Americans began to settle down a few hundred years before the current era. The need for more food for larger populations led to an agriculture and the need to stay in one place for some time. Over the course of that time, these people created economies, societies and cultures characterized by ever more sophisticated earthen structures for funeral, ceremonial and defensive purposes.
All of that − mounds, walls and even the walnut grove and the great mound at Mound Street − are gone now. And these were not the greatest roads of the Mound Builders. Archeologists at the Ohio History Connection speculate that a great road built by the Hopewell People once linked the elaborate earthworks at Newark to earthen necropolis now called Mound City near Chillicothe – a distance of many miles. But if it once was as surmised, it too is gone now.
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