Alum Creek State Park
| Alum Creek State Park | |
| Ohio State Park | |
 Alum Creek State Park in autumn
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| Named for: Alum Creek | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Ohio |
| County | Delaware County |
| Location | |
| - elevation | 899 ft (274 m) |
| - coordinates | 40°11′30″N 82°58′23″W / 40.19167°N 82.97306°WCoordinates: 40°11′30″N 82°58′23″W / 40.19167°N 82.97306°W |
| Area | 4,630 acres (1,874 ha) |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Management | Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Parks and Recreation |
| IUCN category | III - Natural Monument |
 Location of Alum Creek State Park in Ohio
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| Website: Alum Creek State Park | |
Alum Creek State Park is a 4,630-acre (1,870 ha) Ohio state park in Delaware County, Ohio, in the United States. Alum Creek Lake was constructed from 1970 to 1974 as part of the Flood Control Act of 1962. Alum Creek Reservoir holds 3,387 acres (1,371 ha) of water and is open to fishing, boating, ice fishing, ice boating and swimming. The park is just north of the state capital of Columbus and contains the remnants of a settlement by freed slaves that arrived in Ohio from North Carolina.
The first evidence of man living in the Alum Creek State Park area dates back over 2,000 years ago to the Adena culture. The Adena were a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 1000 BC to 200 BC, in a time known as the early Woodland Period. The Adena culture refers to what were probably a number of related Native American societies sharing a burial complex and ceremonial system. Seven mounds were found in the Alum Creek valley and six of the mounds were excavated by archaeologists before the valley was flooded, creating Alum Creek Reservoir.
The Lenape tribe inhabited the area at the arrival of Anglo-Americans. The Lenape had originally lived along the Delaware River in what is now New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They were displaced by the arriving colonial settlers and the Iroquois Indians who were the dominant group in the area. The Lenape established a large community on the banks of the Olentangy River at what is now the city of Delaware. In fact that had a 400-acre (1.6 km2) corn field in what is now downtown Delaware.
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