Big Turtle Riverbox is located in:
Scioto Park
7377 Riverside Drive
Dublin, Ohio
For a map of DAC Riverbox locations, please click here.
Scioto Park is located on Riverside Drive, north of Route 161 and Emerald Parkway and just south of Hard Road. There is ample parking in both the upper and lower levels of this park. Dublin parks are open from dawn to dusk. When visiting, please observe the City of Dublin’s Parks Courtesy and Rules, http://www.dublin.oh.us/recreation/parks/rules.php.
The Scioto River was a natural travel route for the Native Americans between the Ohio River and Lake Erie. What we now call Riverside Drive and Dublin Road were once trails used by Native Americans and later by settlers. The Wyandot Indians were prevalent in the Dublin area and did not live here but camped, hunted and traveled along the river and trails to and from their primary village in what we now call Upper Sandusky. Ancient Indian cultures called Hopewells built a ceremonial mound in the vicinity of Scioto Park. Just about a mile north of Scioto Park was the location of the great Wyandot Chief Leatherlips encampment before he was executed in 1810. A grave marker is located on Riverside Drive, about a mile north of the park on the right side of the road.
Clues:
“Big Turtle”Riverbox / Scioto Park
Inspired by the Huron tribe’s creation myth, found here.
- Enter the top of the park and follow the road down toward the river.
- Go around a tree to park in the land of the humans, next to the land of the animals.
- Pass through the man-made southern shelter house.
- Continue downstream 20 paces and look away from the water to spy a man-made concrete pad.
- From the concrete pad, face up hill and walk 10 paces at a 45 degree angle.
- Look to your left at the base of the largest tree.
Once you discover the Big Turtle Riverbox, please tell us about it by sharing your experience in the DAC Riverboxes Guest Book.
To link to these clues as a printable PDF document, please click here.
Artist and Credits:
Margaret McAdams of Kingston, OH is a Professor of Art at Ohio University-Chillicothe. McAdams received her Master of Fine Arts from Washington University, St. Louis, and is proficient in a variety of media, including ceramics, photography, installation and drawing. She has exhibited her work regionally, nationally and internationally, and in 2005 was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship.
In her statement regarding the Riverboxes project, McAdams writes, “As a professor at a university in rural south-central Ohio, I laud any opportunity to impact the arts in the Appalachian community where I live, whether as an artist or as an ambassador of the arts. Although Dublin is fifty miles north, the Scioto River links our communities, both metaphorically and literally. I can only anticipate the enriching experience this project will afford.” Philosophically, McAdams is also interested in the river. She writes, “The river represents direction, continuity, movement, flow and passage.”
For more information about the artist, please visit http://132.235.130.137/~mcde/
Dublin Arts Council thanks our Riverboxes supporters:
Dublin Arts Council thanks The Dublin Foundation and Honda of America for their financial support of this exciting project. Ongoing support for Dublin Arts Council is received from the City of Dublin’s hotel/motel bed tax endowment and the Ohio Arts Council. The City of Dublin Parks and Open Space Department and the Dublin Historical Society have collaborated with Dublin Arts Council in the project’s development.
