Receiving Jeffers Mound Artifacts

Basic details

Receiving Jeffers Mound Artifacts is an image, with genre photograph.

Its dimensions are 4.0 in x 6.0 in.

It was created sometime in 1996.

Worthington Historical Society is the contributor.

You can find the original at Worthington Historical Society.

Background

Dr. Richard Yerkes (Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University), Jane Trucksis (Curator, Worthington Historical Society) and Harvey Minton (Mayor, City of Worthington) are pictured with artifacts from the Jeffers Hopewell Prehistoric Mound. Artifacts were uncovered during the excavation of the Mound in 1985 by the Ohio State University Field School in Archaeology under Dr. Yerkes' supervision. Located by Plesenton Drive in Worthington, the mound and surrounding land donated to the Worthington Historical Society in 1974. The site was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.

Subjects

It features the people Harvey S. Minton and Jane E. Trucksis.

It features the organization Worthington Historical Society.

It covers the topics Native Americans, Jeffers Hopewell Prehistoric Mound and mayors.

It covers the city Worthington.

Record details

This file was reformatted digital in the format video/jpeg.

The Worthington Memory identification code is whs0214_001.

The Worthington Historical Society identification code is 96-G-165.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on February 18, 2002. It was last updated November 14, 2025.

Copyright

In Copyright

Receiving Jeffers Mound Artifacts from the collections of the Worthington Historical Society (WHS) may be used for educational purposes as long as it is not altered in any way and proper credit is given: "Courtesy of the Worthington Historical Society, Worthington, OH." Prior written permission of the WHS is required for any other use of Receiving Jeffers Mound Artifacts. Contact WHS at info@worthingtonhistory.org to request permission.