Under the agreement, the Ohio History Connection will acquire the club's long-term lease on the property and open the site for full public access, the society announced on Thursday.
The Ohio Supreme Court had ruled in 2022 that the historical society could use eminent domain to buy out the lease from the Moundbuilders Country Club, which has operated a private golf course atop the Octagon Earthworks since 1910.
Our guiding principles throughout this process have been to enable full public access to the Octagon Earthworks while ensuring Moundbuilders Country Club receives just compensation for the value of its lease on the property, Megan Wood, the executive director and chief executive of the History Connection, said in a statement.
The mounds in Newark, about 40 miles east of Columbus, are part of a network of eight archaeological sites in Ohio, known as the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, that were created one basketful of earth at a time, using pointed sticks and clamshell hoes.
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