The Adena People

The Adena folk were unusually tall and powerfully built; women over six feet tall and men approaching heights of seven feet have been discovered. It would seem that a band of strikingly different people of great presence and majesty had forced their way into the Ohio Valley from somewhere about 1000 B.C. - Robert Silverberg

Adena, the historic Worthington home, is located on a commanding range of hills west of Chillicothe. It looks across to Mount Logan, from which the face of the Great Seal of Ohio was designed. It overlooks the Scioto Valley, a terrain favored alike by mound-buiders, the Indians and ourselves. - William Albert Galloway

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Mound Builders of Ancient America by Robert Silverberg, page 254
New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1968

Old Chillicothe by William Albert Galloway, page 213
The Buckeye Press, Xenia Ohio, 1934