Beam Farm Woodland Archaeological District

Archaeological site in Ohio, United States

United States historic place


Beam Farm Woodland Archeological District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Overview of the district
39°29′20″N 83°43′4″W / 39.48889°N 83.71778°W / 39.48889; -83.71778
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
NRHP reference No.	05000340^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 22, 2006

The Beam Farm Woodland Archaeological District is a group of archaeological sites in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located at 3983 Stone Road near the village of Sabina in Clinton County,^[2] the district is composed of one Native American mound and two other archaeological sites spread out over an area of 2 acres (0.81 ha).^[1] Known as the Beam Farm Mound and the Beam Sites 9 and 12 (designated 33-CN-194, 33-CN-195, and 33-CN-208 respectively), the sites that compose the district have yielded artifacts from the Adena culture and the Hopewell tradition, both of which inhabited southwestern Ohio during the Woodland period.^[2] Because both the Adena and the Hopewell lived around the mound, and because both cultures built mounds, the identity of the people who constructed the Beam Farm Mound cannot be established; all that can be known with reasonable certainty is that it was raised during the early or middle portion of the Woodland period, or between 800 BC and AD 500.^[3]

Although small, the Beam Farm Mound is significant as a well-preserved relic of Native American prehistory. The Beam family, which owns the property on which the district is located, has never permitted any excavation of the mound; while this has prevented conclusive identification of its builders, they have ensured that the mound remains undisturbed and pristine in the fields above the Anderson Fork. The owners and the Ohio Historical Society cooperated to place a historical marker at the site in 2001.^[3] Because of the archaeological value of the mound and the other sites, they were declared a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. It joined four other Clinton County sites that were already on the Register: the Cowan Creek Circular Enclosure and the Keiter, Hurley, and Hillside Haven Mounds.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c Beam Farm Woodland Archaeological District, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2011-02-22.
^ ^a ^b Marker #4-14 Beam Farm Mound Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Ohio Historical Society, n.d. Accessed 2011-02-22.

Adena Culture

List of Adena culture sites
Woodland period
Mound Builders
List of archaeological periods (North America)

Ohio sites

Kentucky sites

Biggs
Gaitskill
Jim King Mound
Mound Hill
Mount Horeb
Ramey
Round Hill

West Virginia sites

Camden Park Mound
Cotiga Mound
Cresap Mound
Criel
Goff Mound
Grave Creek
Lynden Reynolds Farm Mound
Neibert Mound
St. Albans Site
St Mary's Mound
Turkey Creek Mound

Indiana sites

Mounds State Park

Category

v t e Hopewellian peoples
Woodland period List of Hopewell sites Mound Builders List of archaeological periods (North America)
Ohio Hopewell	Beam Farm Benham Mound Cary Village Site Cedar-Bank Works Dunns Pond Mound Ellis Mounds Ety Enclosure Ety Habitation Site Everett Knoll Complex Fort Ancient Fortified Hill Works Great Hopewell Road High Banks Works Hopeton Earthworks Hopewell Culture National Historical Park Indian Mound Cemetery Keiter Mound Marietta Earthworks Moorehead Circle Mound of Pipes Nettle Lake Mound Group Newark Earthworks Oak Mounds Orators Perin Village Site Pollock Works Portsmouth Earthworks Rocky Fork Enclosures Rocky Fork Mounds Seip Earthworks and Dill Mounds District Shawnee Lookout Shriver Circle Earthworks Stubbs Earthworks Tremper Mound and Works Williamson Mound Archeological District
Crab Orchard culture	Carrier Mills Archaeological District Cleiman Mound Hubele site Mann site Mount Vernon Site O'byams Fort site Wilson site Yankeetown site
Goodall focus	Goodall site Norton Mound group
Havana Hopewell culture	Albany Mounds State Historic Site Dickson Mounds Duncan Farm Golden Eagle-Toppmeyer Site Kamp Mound Site Mound House site Naples Archeological District Naples Mound 8 Ogden-Fettie Site Rockwell Mound Sinnissippi Mounds Toolesboro Mound Group
Kansas City Hopewell	Cloverdale archaeological site Renner Village Archeological Site Trowbridge Archeological Site
Marksville culture	Crooks Mound Grand Gulf Mound Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site Mott Archaeological Preserve
Miller culture	Bynum Mound and Village Site Ingomar Mound Miller Site Pharr Mounds Pinson Mounds
Point Peninsula complex	Lewiston Mound Serpent Mounds Park LeVescounte Mounds
Swift Creek culture Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture	Crystal River Archaeological State Park Etowah Indian Mounds Leake Mounds Kolomoki Mounds Miner's Creek site Pierce Site Swift Creek mound site Third Gulf Breeze Yearwood site Yent Mound
Other Hopewellian peoples	Armstrong culture Copena culture Fourche Maline culture Laurel complex Saugeen complex Old Stone Fort (Tennessee)
Exotic trade items	Copper Galena Mica Fresh water pearls Obsidian Pipestone Sea shells
Related topics Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley Black drink burial mound Ceremonial pipe Effigy mound Hopewell pottery Horned Serpent Eastern Agricultural Complex Underwater panther

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
Lists by county	Adams Allen Ashland Ashtabula Athens Auglaize Belmont Brown Butler Carroll Champaign Clark Clermont Clinton Columbiana Coshocton Crawford Cuyahoga Darke Defiance Delaware Erie Fairfield Fayette Franklin Fulton Gallia Geauga Greene Guernsey Hamilton Hancock Hardin Harrison Henry Highland Hocking Holmes Huron Jackson Jefferson Knox Lake Lawrence Licking Logan Lorain Lucas Madison Mahoning Marion Medina Meigs Mercer Miami Monroe Montgomery Morgan Morrow Muskingum Noble Ottawa Paulding Perry Pickaway Pike Portage Preble Putnam Richland Ross Sandusky Scioto Seneca Shelby Stark Summit Trumbull Tuscarawas Union Van Wert Vinton Warren Washington Wayne Williams Wood Wyandot
Lists by city	Akron Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton Sandusky
Other lists	Bridges Cuyahoga Valley National Park National Historic Landmarks
Keeper of the Register History of the National Register of Historic Places Property types Historic district Contributing property

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Clinton County, Ohio
Historic districts	Beam Farm Woodland Archeological District Pansy Methodist Church and School Historic District South South Street Historic District Underwood Farms Rural Historic District Wilmington Commercial Historic District
Other properties	College Hall, Wilmington College Cowan Creek Circular Enclosure Doan House Frank Haines House Eli Harvey House Hillside Haven Mound Hurley Mound Keiter Mound Lynchburg Covered Bridge Main Building School Martinsville Road Covered Bridge Rombach Place Silk City Diner #4655
Formerly listed	Smith Place
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Clinton County, Ohio and List of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio