On This Day in West Virginia History, March 19th

March 19, 2023

Mountaineer News

Vintage West Virginia

The Grave Creek Mound, a Native American burial mound located in present-day Moundsville, was opened on March 19, 1838, by Jesse Tomlinson.

Learn more: Mounds and Mound Builders "American Antiquities at Grave Creek" Grave Creek Mound: Description by Meriwether Lewis, 1803 Grave Creek Mound: Description by Thaddeus Mason Harris, 1803 Grave Creek Mound: Description by Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1894 Sources on Native Americans in West Virginia Document-Based Questions