Perin Village Site | |
Location | 0.3 miles northwest of the Odd Fellows' Cemetery [2]: 646 |
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Nearest city | Newtown, Ohio |
Coordinates | 39°7′49″N 84°21′36″W / 39.13028°N 84.36000°W |
Area | 80 acres (32 ha) |
NRHP reference No. | 77001067 [1] |
Added to NRHP | March 25, 1977 |
The Perin Village Site is an archaeological site in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located in Newtown in Hamilton County, [1] it is believed to have been inhabited by peoples of the Hopewell tradition. [2]: 647
Perin Village is part of a prehistoric complex of earthworks in the Newtown vicinity; other sites in the complex include the Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound, approximately 0.3 miles (0.48 km) to the southeast, [2]: 646 and the large Turner Earthworks. [3] A mound was once located at the site; when it was destroyed for the purpose of improving a roadway in the late 1870s, it yielded many bones and pieces of charcoal. [4] Two portions of the village site are especially rich in artifacts; [2]: 647 however, the site, 80 acres (32 ha) in total, [1] has a less dense concentration of surface artifacts than many other sites in the region due to its location near the Little Miami River — many floods during the site's history have covered earlier artifacts with layers of silt. It is believed that a detailed excavation of Perin Village would yield evidence of houses, hearths, middens, and burial sites. A small number of "Hopewell-like" artifacts were once removed from the site by local resident Frederick Starr; his collection is now housed at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science. [2]: 647
The archaeological value of the Perin Village Site led to its placement on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, four years after a similar status was accorded to the Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound. [1]