These photos were taken in July, 2009, While I was driving through Romney, WV on a project. I was unfamilar with the the mound and decided to stop to take a few pictures.
The mound, believed to have belonged to the Hopewell Culture, on a hill above South Branch Potomac River. All photos by Bob Bell.
The entrance to Indian Mound Cemetery, off U.S. Highway 50,
in Hampshire County, WV, is the largest of the remaining mounds discovered in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. It is seven feet high and 15 feet in diameter.
Fort Pearsall was built on the site, or in general vicinity, as protection against the indians in 1754. The site has never been excavated. Some historians believe the fort was built on the hill across U.S. 50.
