MIDWEST—This summer, the Middle-Ohio Valley Heritage Foundation (MOVHF)—an eastern Kentucky-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit—received America250KY funding from the Kentucky Historical Society to develop and implement a project expanding public access to significant archaeological and historical sites in northeastern Kentucky.
The project installed interpretive signs at four locations featured in the new Northeast Kentucky Heritage Driving Tour. The tour has four main stops, beginning or ending at the Highlands Museum & Discovery Center in downtown Ashland, Kentucky. Tri-fold pamphlets with directions will be available at the museum and distributed at businesses and public facilities across the region, and tour information will also appear on the MOVHF Facebook page. Additional stops will be added as funding allows.
One featured stop is the Archaeological Conservancy’s Town Square Mound Archaeological Preserve, an Early Woodland Adena mound dating to roughly 500 B.C. through A.D. 250. Donated by Town Square Bank in 2015 for permanent preservation, the mound and surrounding land are currently undergoing restoration and vegetation clearing to reduce erosion and prevent damage from large root systems.
Pictured: Funding from the Kentucky Historical Society enabled new signage to be installed at The Archaeological Conservancy’s Town Square Mound. Photo by Lindsay Scott / The Archaeological Conservancy
