Chester
Chester is a sleepy little town in Meigs County,
Ohio. It’s home to the Parsons Plastics factory – the
major employer in the town, and several smaller
manufacturing plants. The economic dips that have
come and gone since the Great Depression have
somehow passed Chester by, and people like it that
way.
The 20,000 people who call Chester home love it; its small town flavor has not been marred by the modern bustle of city life. Life goes on there much in the same way as it has for the last seven decades.
It’s also home to the mound. Ohio has long been known for the Great Serpent Mound; an earthwork thought to have been created almost 3000 years ago; it’s the largest earthwork in the world. Chester is about 118 miles from that, but it has a mound of its own, as do several other smaller towns in Ohio.
The Chester mound draws tourists, and add a lot of local flavor. It’s a series of interlocked earthworks totaling nearly 650 feet in length; also supposedly built by the Adena. From the air, it’s clearly visible – three snakes pointing inward, tongue-to-tongue, undulating out in a bizarre triskelion. This symbol is everywhere in Chester, from the town seal to the local Baseball team the Chester Serpents.
The people love their mound. But that’s not all Chester can lay claim to. Over the decades it’s produced some exceptional people in the shadow of that mound. It’s most famous son, Arthur Hunt, the town drunk turned eccentric genius, who forged an empire on consumer electronics was born there, and a statue dedicated to him sits in the middle of town.
A 12’ Hunt cast in bronze beckons to the west, his hand outstretched. With an uncharacteristic smile on his face, Hunt’s eyes point towards the mound.
In recent years, several odd crimes have marred the town’s beloved mounds. Douglas Yale, the deceased Ohio River Killer who murdered and ate his victims, was connected to a series of vandalism that cut into the priceless construction, and the local coven of nuts – the New Star Crusade are often busted for trespassing at there at odd hours. The mounds seem to draw people in.
The 20,000 people who call Chester home love it; its small town flavor has not been marred by the modern bustle of city life. Life goes on there much in the same way as it has for the last seven decades.
It’s also home to the mound. Ohio has long been known for the Great Serpent Mound; an earthwork thought to have been created almost 3000 years ago; it’s the largest earthwork in the world. Chester is about 118 miles from that, but it has a mound of its own, as do several other smaller towns in Ohio.
The Chester mound draws tourists, and add a lot of local flavor. It’s a series of interlocked earthworks totaling nearly 650 feet in length; also supposedly built by the Adena. From the air, it’s clearly visible – three snakes pointing inward, tongue-to-tongue, undulating out in a bizarre triskelion. This symbol is everywhere in Chester, from the town seal to the local Baseball team the Chester Serpents.
The people love their mound. But that’s not all Chester can lay claim to. Over the decades it’s produced some exceptional people in the shadow of that mound. It’s most famous son, Arthur Hunt, the town drunk turned eccentric genius, who forged an empire on consumer electronics was born there, and a statue dedicated to him sits in the middle of town.
A 12’ Hunt cast in bronze beckons to the west, his hand outstretched. With an uncharacteristic smile on his face, Hunt’s eyes point towards the mound.
In recent years, several odd crimes have marred the town’s beloved mounds. Douglas Yale, the deceased Ohio River Killer who murdered and ate his victims, was connected to a series of vandalism that cut into the priceless construction, and the local coven of nuts – the New Star Crusade are often busted for trespassing at there at odd hours. The mounds seem to draw people in.
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Chester
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