This World Heritage Day, Ohio is celebrating its first UNESCO World Heritage site with the opening of a “reimagined” rest stop in Licking County that celebrates the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks. “It ...

The Ohio History Connection has been working for more than a decade to have these sites recognized by United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Ohio’s Hopewell ...

NEWARK/HEATH − The skies were cloudy and dreary at Sunday’s World Heritage commemoration ... We all come together.” Licking County Commissioner Tim Bubb congratulated the Ohio History ...

Gov. Mike DeWine says it is a “big deal” that Ohio could have a World Heritage Site. Indeed, it is. World Heritage is the list of the most important sites in the world. There are only 25 World ...

Warren and Licking counties, would be the first World Heritage Site located in Ohio. Last year, the National Park Service nominated the sites to become the 25th World Heritage Site in the U.S ...

NEWARK — Twenty months after Licking County won the Super ... Stonehenge and the Great Barrier Reef. This is Ohio’s first World Heritage site, the 25 th in the United States and one of about ...

Lane said World Heritage status should double visits to the earthworks, create about 180 new, full-time jobs, and generate about $12.5 million in Licking ... Ohio’s new World Heritage site a success ...

The sites are spread across three counties: On Sept. 19 at the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee ... means for Chillicothe, Ross County and all of Ohio," said Feeney.

Ohio’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, including Warren County ... about 1,000 World Heritage sites around the globe. The eight Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks sites are in Licking, Ross ...

NEWARK, Ohio (WCMH) — For the first time in more than a century, the Octagon Earthworks in Newark, part of Ohio’s first and only UNESCO World Heritage ... a Licking County Common Pleas Court ...

WARREN COUNTY, Ohio (WKRC) -A new UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ohio is planning a watch ... in Warren County is linked to others like it in Licking and Ross counties. They're known collectively ...