“It’s the general attitude of the American people,” Olafson commented. “We’re lucky the pyramids are in a backward country like Egypt. If they were in the U.S., they would have been dismantled for railroad ballast or bridge abutments by now.” This quote is from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History website, Archives and History, Native Americans. The article is entitled "Smaller Parts of Mystery Walls Reported Unharmed" by James A. Haught. For a link to this article and a list of articles about stone construction and mound construction in West Virginia, click here.
Here is a quote from another article at the same web page: "Just across the Ohio River, from near the Engle run stop of the B. & O. railroad, on a hill on the McKnight farm in Washington County, Ohio, is a paved stone platform. This platform pavement, or roadway, or what ever one chooses to call it, is now one hundred and ninety-two feet in length and about fourteen feet wide at its widest part. The stones in this pavement are all set on their edges." This is from the article entitled "Shrouded in Mystery are the Great Pre-Historic Ruins at Bens Run, W. Va." and was contributed by George P. Riggs and Nikola Riggs August 27, 1927. Click here for a link to that article only.
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