Monday, March 23, 2009

Another drive with a destination

Yesterday's Sunday afternoon drive took us to the not-really-all-that-famous Miamisburg Mound.  The Miamisburg Mound is the largest conical burial mound east of the Mississippi.  It's attributed to the Adena culture (1000-200 BC).  It was big enough to impress our kids. 


From the top there is a view of this lovely Superfund site, where the neutron generating triggers for the first plutonium bombs were developed.  (Did you know there was a "Dayton Project" within the Manhattan Project?) 



Perhaps no community is really complete without its own Indian burial mound and toxic waste site.  Where else would we drive to on a Sunday afternoon?