[3] Located within the City of Norwood's Water Tower Park at 656 feet (200 m) above sea level, the mound is the highest land elevation in Norwood and one of the highest elevations in all of southwest Ohio.

The size, shape, and location of the mound suggest it was constructed by people of the Adena culture during the Pre-Columbian era.

[4] Archaeologists believe the mound was used by the Adenas for religious ceremonies and smoke signaling.

[3] The Norwood Heights neighborhood surrounding the mound was constructed in 1869, when it was reported that seventeen villages and towns could be seen from the summit.

[7] From none of the hills that skirt the Miami valley like giant sentinels is there revealed a panorama of greater grandeur than that which unfolds before the pilgrim who has scaled the heights that are crowned by the historic Indian mound.