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��HISTORY OF RICHLAND COUNTY.

��In Sandusky Township, near the line between Sandusky and Polk, exists a mound, six or eight feet high, and, originally, twenty feet in diam- eter. It has been greatly reduced liy the plow.

��Section 16, there is a double mound about thirty feet high. It is supposed to be artificial; but it has never })een excavated. There is also a depression which the early settlers reported

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��It was undoubtedly a sepulchral mound, as relics are often found about it to warrant such a conclusion.

In Jefferson Township, on the farm of Mr. Reuben Evarts, on the northeast quarter of

��as a walled well. On the Laflferty form, in this same township, there is a large mound, seventy or eighty feet high, and as perfect as a sugar- loaf in form. It has never been excavated, but appears to be artificial. On account of its size.

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