Wood County – MORE THAN 7 FEET LONG

14 HUMAN SKELETONS

In Staunton Park (L), A triangular park near the western end of the town, is a conical Indian Burial Mound, 175 feet in circumference at the base and 30 feet high. Ornaments Stone Weapons, fragments of pottery – and 14 human skeletons – one more than seven feet long – were found when the mound was opened by the Federal Government in 1883.

West Virginia, A Guide to the Mountain State, 1952, pg.488, Staunton Park, West Virginia, 1883.