• The Conway mastodon at the Ohio History Center.

  • Emily George (center), is shown here holding a large molar from the Williams mastodon, surrounded by her family. From left to right, Kevin Schollenberger, Claire George, Emily, Missy George, Louie George.

  • Gus George (lower right, facing camera) at the excavation site in 1954.

  • A molar section from the Williams mastodon.

  • A tusk section from the Williams mastodon.

  • Clockwise from upper left: mastodon tooth, horn coral, trilobite, small concretions, slag from Hope Furnace, Vinton County.

  • Description of the Skeleton of the Mastodon Giganteus of North America by J.C. Warren, 1852.

  • Mastodon

  • Unruly mastodon. Painting by Jon Rae from American Indian Fairy Tales, 1921.

  • Americans who were native to our area during the Moundbuilder Era left behind sculpted stone pipes that give clear evidence of their familiarity with the mastodons of North American.

  • Driving through the rolling farmland of Weller Township, it is not difficult to imagine the scene 12,000 years ago when the cranberry bogs attracted critters who left this landscape millennia ago.

  • Mastodons are shown here at the edge of the glacier in Ohio.

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