About twenty years prior to the beginning of the Moundbuilders Country Club the state was seeking a location for an Epileptic Asylum. The article speaks highly of the Octagon Mounds as a potential site for the asylum. “The location of the asylum, there is a beautiful earthwork, beautifully formed and admiralty situated.”4 If these mounds were highly regarded and admired how can a building be placed among these grounds. It is clear, that greed and the financial gains of the people and state government officials blinded them.“The Ohio Historical Society favors the location of the asylum there, as by the means that the historic earthworks would be
