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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Flint Ridge
Ohio History
Flint in the Rock
Did you ever wonder how the Indians made the tools to build all those mounds...and manufactured spearheads, arrows, and knives? We found out at the Flint Ridge Museum (also in Newark)—with flint! This beautiful, hard rock was mined in flint pits, then napped, or filed down, to nice sharp points. After marveling at the colorful samples of flint in the museum, we saw old flint-mining pits used by the Indians in the surrounding woods. The settlers even used flint for grindstones in their first mills!
4 comments:
We went there two years ago. It was fascinating; surprisingly unpublicized.
What beautiful pink colors in that rock!
That's very interesting. It makes me wonder how the properties of flint for all its uses were discovered.
Do you have any photos of the arrowheads? Would like to see more on this! :)
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