America’s Stonehenge

Is this an oldest man-made structure in the United States of America? Radiocarbon testing found pieces from the charcoal pit to be up to four thousand years old. Form many years it was called “Mystery Hill” by certain William Goodwin, who purchased the site in 1936. This name remained until 1982, when it was renamed “America’s Stonehenge (Wikipedia)”. Both names are well-deserved: no one knows who built the structures and why. There are theories that stones were congregated by the farmers. The large flat stone, also known as “sacrificial stone”, has channels which were presumed to have collected blood of the victims. That may be, but it also closely resembles “lye-leaching stones” found on many old farms that were used to extract lye from wood ashes, the first step in the manufacture of soap. There is a theory that stones represented some ancient, certainly pre-Columbian astronomical calendar.