Wright Earthworks
Part of Newark Earthworks State Memorial, the Wright Earthworks consist of a fragment of a geometrically near-perfect square enclosure and part of one wall that originally formed a set of parallel embankments, which led from the square to a large oval enclosure. Originally, the sides of the Newark square ranged from about 940 to 950 feet in length, and they enclosed a total area of about 20 acres. Farming and construction associated with building the Ohio Canal and the streets and houses of the city of Newark destroyed much of the square enclosure and its associated mounds. The remaining segment of one wall of the square is less than two hundred feet long.
Read more about this topic: Newark Earthworks
Famous quotes containing the word wright:
“I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)