Chester, Ohio is a sleepy little town in Meigs County, Ohio. It’s home to the Parsons Plastics factory – the major employer in the town, and several smaller manufacturing plants. The economic dips that have come and gone since the Great Depression have somehow passed Chester by, and people like it that way. The 20,000 people who call Chester home love it; its small town flavor has not been marred by the modern bustle of city life.

Welcome to Chester, Ohio, Home of the Mound. Chester, Ohio is a sleepy little town in Meigs County, Ohio. It’s home to the Parsons Plastics factory – the major employer in the town, and several smaller manufacturing plants. The economic dips that have come and gone since the Great Depression have somehow passed Chester by, and people like it that way. The 20,000 people who call Chester home love it; its small town flavor has not been marred by the modern bustle of city life. 

Life goes on there much in the same way as it has for the last seven decades.

It’s also home to the mound. Ohio has long been known for the Great Serpent Mound; an earthwork created by the Adena Indians almost 3000 years ago; it’s the largest earthwork in the world. Chester is about 118 miles from that, but it has a mound of its own, as do several other smaller towns in Ohio.

The mound draws people off the main road, and adds a lot of local flavor. It’s a series of interlocked earthworks totaling nearly 650 feet in length; also supposedly built by the Adena Indians. From the air, it’s clearly visible – three snakes pointing inward, tongue-to-tongue, undulating out in a bizarre triskelion. This symbol is everywhere in Chester, from the town seal to the local Baseball team the Chester Serpents.

The people love their mound.

But that’s not all Chester can lay claim to. Over the decades it’s produced some exceptional people in the shadow of that mound. It’s most famous son, Arthur Hunt, the town drunk turned eccentric genius, who forged an empire on consumer electronics was born there, and a statue dedicated to him sits in the middle of town.

A 12’ Hunt cast in bronze beckons to the west, his hand outstretched.

With an uncharacteristic smile on his face, Hunt’s eyes point towards the mound.

In recent years, several odd crimes have marred the town’s beloved mounds. Douglas Yale, the deceased Ohio River Killer who ate his victims, was connected to a series of vandalisms that cut into the priceless construction, and the local coven of nuts – the New Star Crusade are often busted for trespassing there at odd hours.

The mound seems to draw people in...