PREHISTORIC TIMES 9
from Dixon to Highland Lick, and from there through Henshaw
Lck in Union County to the Ohio River crossing at Shawneetown A
u€· prong of this trail, which can be called the Dixon-Uniontown
SO" Trail, forked at Dixon in Webster County. It continued from
I a Dixon to Morganfield, and then to Uniontown on the Ohio River.
WO From there it led to the Indian settlements scattered up and
as down the Wabash.
ue- Surface material and caches, as well as village sites and .
HY mounds, have been found in abundance in the county. Even in
recent years Indian artifacts are turned ‘up now and then.
led I. R. Williams, Uniontown poolroom proprietor, was a more
ill- recent collector of Indian artifacts. His valuable collection was
est gathered almost entirely in Union County and after his death
ant in 1932 it was given to the Western Kentucky State Teachers”
ble College at Bowling Green.
are p One of the spots, where some aboriginal object is occasionally
I dug up, is known as "Indian Hill," near DeKoven. About a half-
njs century ago, 1894 to be exact, M. E. Oglesby and William Keller
he were hunting on this hill when they noticed a depression in the
Lge earth. They decided to dig and were rewarded with a large piece
ISO of lead ore, some arrowheads, and a complete skeleton. Dr. J. D.
Ames examined the bones of this skeleton and found that the
dy nose had been broken and had healed crooked, and that a crack .
,611 in the left temple was probably the cause of death. When meas-
.g€ ured, it was estimated that the Indian had been over six feet in
vad height.
¤€_ Another doctor, Joseph Hinton Hamner, of Spring Grove, was
len one of Union County’s early amateur archeologists. About the
[-€_ time that S. S. Lyon was excavating for the Smithsonian Institu-
nd tion, Dr. Hamner was digging in the mounds of the old Raleigh
·kS Precinct. The old Ulnion County History (p. 686) reported that
je- he had found "many aboriginalrelics that are curious, and that
Of throw considerable light upon the manners and customs of an-
cient Americans?
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