James E. Campbell served as governor of Ohio from 1890-1892 and later as president of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society from 1913-1924, before his daughter Jessie Campbell Coons named Campbell Memorial Park for him in 1929 after educator Minnie R. Shrum deeded the land for the Shrum Indian Mound to the Ohio Historical Society; the park and mound were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. Native Americans of the Adena culture were among Ohio's first known settlers, living in the upper and middle Ohio Valley during the late Archaic and Early Woodland periods, roughly 1000 B.C.-100 A.D., as hunters, gatherers, traders, and farmers who carved effigy figures, made ceramic pots, built extensive houses, and developed significant burial mounds of earth, stone, the remains of deceased members, and token objects on uplands near major waterways such as the mound here near the Scioto River.
