Glimpses of historic Madison County, Kentucky, Part 1

Author: Dorris, Jonathan Truman, 1883-1972.
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Publisher: Nashville, Tennessee : Williams Printing Company, 1955
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Glimpses of Historic" Madison County, Kentucky


By JONATHAN TRUMAN DORRIS and 106


MAUD WEAVER DORRIS


Introduction by Dr. W. D. Weatherford


Published in co-operation with Berea Centennial Publications


WILLIAMS PRINTING COMPANY NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE


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Copyrighted 1955 by Jonathan Truman Dorris and Maud Weaver Dorris


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Dedicated to the Spirit of Freedom, Labor, and Culture which has charac- terized Berea College for a century.


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Acknowledgments


E ARLY IN APRIL Mrs. Dorris and I promised Dr. W. D. Weather- ford that we would produce a volume in connection with the Berea College Centennial. Then we expected to prepare an exten- sion of my A Glimpse at Historic Madison County and Richmond, Kentucky, issued in 1934 as a Daniel Boone Bicentennial publica- tion. For twenty-five years, I had wanted to prepare a history of Madison County. This seemed to be an opportune time to write something of that sort, so we decided to prepare "Glimpses" of the County as the only type of Madison's history that time and other very discouraging conditions would permit.


The scope of the volume soon caused the authors to invite others to contribute items which they were specially prepared to write. Six members of the local College staff-Professors D. Thomas Ferrell, William Keene, Harvey H. LaFuze, William Stocker, Colonel H. Y. Grubbs, and Miss Ellen Pugh-came to our aid. Three attor- neys of Richmond-Warfield Miller, John Bayer, and H. O. Porter- found time to help. Several Bereans-Dr. W. D. Weatherford, Dr. Wilbur G. Burroughs, Warren Dean Lambert and Mrs. Ellen H. Mitchell-made valuable contributions. Besides Miss Pugh, Mrs. Murison Dunn, Mrs. H. O. Porter, Mrs. J. B. Arnett, and Mrs. Hubert Cornelison responded for the women's organizations. Infor- mation about three of Richmond's hospitals came from the offices of Doctors Robert Sory, Shelby Carr, and Mason Pope. Mrs. James Lackey rendered service by the loan of a scrapbook on the Pattie A. Clay Infirmary which she and her mother had prepared through the years. Mrs. Jerre B. Noland's research records of Revolutionary soldiers who were buried in Madison County was very useful. Charles K. A. McGaughey wrote for the Masons, J. D. Hamilton for the Blue Grass Ordnance and Dr. W. H. Poore the first part on churches. Others contributing were Coleman Oldham, J. B. Rymell, Ed Wayman, James Thornton, and Rev. J. W. Cobb. Nothing was obtained from Berea's rubber plant. My student secretaries, Miss Delores Sampson and Miss Jane Elder, should be commended for typing the manuscript and in helping to assemble material for pub- lication. Ru Bee contributed much in photography.


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Efforts were in vain to get a few other organizations to respond. To those who helped so willingly to make "Glimpses" a very in- formative volume the authors are very grateful. We hope the book is ready for distribution on Richmond's Wilderness Road night in Berea's Indian Fort Theatre on Thursday, July 21.


Readers will not find the volume a conventional history in which the general rules of unity and coherence of the different parts have been followed. The book is just what the title suggests. The task for a real history of Madison remains for the local historians to accomplish. Nevertheless, as Dr. Weatherford states in his Introduc- tion the work should be in every home of the County where there are school children. Every Madisonian will find it very useful; even the Bibliography will be suggestive of information for others on subjects relating to the County's history.


The haste in which the volume has been prepared and published makes likely errors in composition and in facts of history. For this the authors are very regretful. They have done the best they could under very trying circumstances. So mote it be.


June 27, 1955


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Introduction


TN A NEW and growing country, where all the institutions of civili- zation and culture, must be organized and developed, most men are so intensely engaged in the activities of the present that they never stop to look at the story of the past. The struggles and the achievements of the past generation soon disappear, and men fail either to evaluate or to learn any of the lessons which experience should teach.


The average high school, which must give the majority of the citizens most of their formal education, pays far too little attention to the history of American development and often no attention what- ever to the development of the region or the locality in which the particular high school is located. This tends to rob present day society of the rich heritage of its past, and lays that society open to untried and half baked ideas, which a better knowledge of the past might well have saved society from trying. Surely all wisdom is not confined to the present, nor should we assume that past experience is without its values. To garner the best wisdom from past exper- ience and compound it with the best thinking of the present seems the essence of true wisdom.


But it is just here that the rush of present day life may rob American society of one element of strength. We know too little of the great persons of our history-of which every locality has one or many.


Madison County is fortunate in having some of the great names of pioneer days in its roll of honor, and many of the most stirring events of those early days took place on the soil of this historic county. One only need mention Daniel Boone, Cassius Clay, Rich- ard Henderson, the Burnams, Capertons, and many others to sub- stantiate this claim. Dr. and Mrs. Dorris in the study of Madison County have named scores of these pioneers and given them their due meed of praise.


Events of historic significance, such as the founding of Boones- borough, the great siege of Boonesborough, the first legislative as- sembly, the earliest religious service in the state of Kentucky, and scores of other firsts, are given proper treatment.


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There is a chapter on Ancient Forts and Mounds, some of which are among the oldest and most significant in the United States; another chapter on the beginnings of education in Kentucky- particularly in Madison County; accounts of some of the South's best known colleges; stories of ancient churches; the stories of famous celebrations beginning with the Boonesborough Celebration of 1840, and coming down through those of Translyvania and Berea Colleges; the study of the "Press," civic organizations, military his- tory, and Kentucky's great struggle during the Civil War, much of which centered in Madison County, make this volume replete with information about not only the facts of history, but also of the growth and development of culture and civilization in this part of the world.


The authors are to be congratulated on the wide variety of inter- ests which the book embraces. It is a veritable mine of historic material which should be in every home in the county where there is a growing boy or girl, and should be in every school library in the state. It should have wide reading to remind all Kentuckians of their rich heritage.


Berea, June 24, 1955


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GLIMPSES OF HISTORIC MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY


I. ANCIENT FORTS AND MOUNDS I


Indian Fort Mountain 1


Robe's Mountain 4


Basin Mountain 4


Copper Armor


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Mounds and Other Forts 6


The Moberly Mound 8


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II. BOONELAND 14


Daniel Boone 14


Transylvania Colony


A Boonesborough Romance 16


The Siege of Fort Boonesborough In 1778 21


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Sycamore Hollow 26


Boonesborough 27


Estill's Defeat 29


Boone's Rock In Town 33


III. MADISON COUNTY 37


Its Organization and Development 37


Early Surveyors and Land Titles 42


The Kennedys 45


The Estills and Irvines 48


Firsts in Kentucky 49


IV. TRANSPORTATION


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Water, Bridges, and Roads 52


Railroads


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V. CITIES AND VILLAGES 59


Richmond 59


Westinghouse 62


Berea


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Villages 67


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VI. THE MADISON COUNTY PRESS 70


Richmond Papers 70


The Berea Press 75


VII. EDUCATION IN MADISON COUNTY 78


Introduction


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Early Education 78


Private Schools


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Education From 1837 to 1900 88


Public Education From 1900 to 1955 91


Independent School Districts 95


VIII. COLLEGES 98


Berea 98


Central University 105


Eastern Kentucky State College 108


IX. CHURCHES 111


Introduction 111


The Presbyterian Church 111


Disciples of Christ. 113


The Church of God 114


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Union Church of Berea 115


Catholics 115


White's Memorial 116


The Christian Science Church 117


The Church of Christ 117


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Methodist 120


X. THE CLAYS 123


General Green Clay


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Cassius Marcellus Clay I.


Brutus Junius Clay I 123


Cassius Marcellus Clay II 127


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Laura Clay 128


Cassius Marcellus Clay III


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XI. THE SLAVERY CONTROVERSY 132


Slavery in the Church 132


Clay Vs. Fee 135


The Mobbing of John G. Fee 136


Expulsion of the Bereans 139


XII. THE CIVIL WAR 144


A Union Meeting in 1861


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The Clay Battalion 145


The Battle of Richmond 146


The 11th Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A. 151


A Madisonian's Response to the Draft. 152


Reminiscences 153


An Aftermath 135


Humanity Appreciated and Acknowledged 156


The Romance of A Keepsake Album 157


XIII. SONGS OF FREEDOM 159


The Changing World 159


Henry Allen Laine 161


Yesterday and Today 166


XIV. BURNAMS AND CAPERTONS 169


The Burnams 169


The Capertons 171


Releasing Confederate Prisoners 173


XV. NOTABLES 176


Natives 176


Not Natives 186


XVI. HISTORICAL MARKERS AND TABLETS. 193


The Fort Boonesborough Marker


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The Transylvania Monument. 193


On Highways Near Richmond 196


In the Future 197


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Berea's Centennial


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XVII. LODGES 205


Masonry in Madison County 205


The Elk's Lodge 209 Odd Fellows 211


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XIX. ORGANIZATIONS OF WOMEN . 213


Boonesborough Chapter D.A.R. 213


Berea Laurel Ridge Chapter D.A.R. 214


Richmond Woman's Club. 215


Richmond Junior Woman's Club 217


Berea Woman's Club 220


American Association of University Women 220


The Altrusa Club 223


The League of Women Voters ( Berea) 225


The Saturday Matinee Musical 226


The Cecilian Music Club 226


XX. CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS 228


The Board of Trade 228


The Rotary 229


The Exchange


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The Kiwanis 232


The Madison County Lions 234


The Berea Kiwanis . 235


The Telford Community Center 236


The 4-H Club 237


XXI. MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS 243


The National Guard 243


The Reserve Officers Training Corps. 247


The Blue Grass Ordnance 249


Boonesborough Post 7098, Veterans of Foreign Wars. . 253


Revolutionary Soldiers Buried 254


XXII. CELEBRATIONS 261


Boonesborough in 1840 261


Homecoming for David R. Francis 264


Boonesborough in 1907 270


The Daniel Boone Bicentennial 273


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The Pioneer National Monument Association 277


The Transylvania Celebration 279


The Madison Sesqui-Centennial 282


The Berea College Centennial 285


XXIII. OLD HOMES 287


Introduction 287


The Log House Era 289


An Age of Stone. 290


Lexington Pike and Tate's Creek 291


Kirksville, Silver Creek, and South Madison 293


Big Hill and Speedwell. 295


Red House and Vicinity 297


Main Street and Tributaries 299


XXIV. HOSPITALS 303


The Pattie A. Clay Infirmary


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The Gibson Hospital 305


The Henry Cook Pope Hospital.


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The Berea Hospital 307


Eastern State College Hospital. 307


The Irvine-McDowell Memorial Hospital 308


XXV. CEMETERIES 311


Rural and Village 311


The Berea Cemetery 313


The Richmond Cemetery 314


BIBLIOGRAPHY 319


Index 325


Other Publications by J. T. Dorris 334


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Squire Boone Rock. II


Basin Mountain Fort 2


Indian Fort Mountain Fortification


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"Bogie Circle" Mounds 6


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Jones Tavern


Andrew Bogie Home


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Plot of Boonesborough 15


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Fort Boonesborough


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John A. R. Rogers.


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William G. Frost


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Union Church


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Fine Arts Building


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Science Building


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Boone Tavern


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Mrs. Mossie Allman Wyker


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Miss Belle Harris Bennett 109


University Hall 109


The College Library 109


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The Student Union 109


"Areadne on Her Panther" 114


Joel T. Hart's Bust of Cassius M. Clay I


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Green Clay 123


Christopher Carson 123


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The Transylvania Convention


Present courthouse


Map of early land claims


Dr. William J. Hutchins


Open Air Theatre


Cannon and Revolver used by Cassius Clay 124


White Hall-Home of the Clays 124


Southern Church 135


Northern Church 135


Cassius M. Clay Battalion


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Mt. Zion Church. 155 Madison Female Institute 155


Miller, Justice Samuel Freeman 162


Weatherford, Dr. W. D 162


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Burnam, Curtis F.


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Caperton, James W.


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Blanton, Lindsey H. 169


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Francis, David R.


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McCreary, James B.


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Smith, Green Clay 177


Coates, Dr. T. J.


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Donovan, Dr. H. L.


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Johnson, Hon. Keen


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O'Donnell, Dr. W. F.


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Transylvania Tablets


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DAR Boonesborough Stone.


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Memorial for Union and Confederate dead


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Battle of Richmond marker


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Boone Bicentennial Commission


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Indian Fort Theatre


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Castlewood


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Cumberland View


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Woodlawn


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Solomon Smith House 298


Ezekiel Field House. 300


John Speed Smith House 300


Anthony Wayne Rollins House 301


William Holloway House 301


Richmond Cemetery Memorials, by Ru Bee 318


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CHAPTER 1 Ancient Forts and Mounds


INDIAN FORT MOUNTAIN


P ROBABLY Madison County has or has had as many remains of prehistoric man as any other county in Kentucky. These "Glimpses" will merely locate and describe a few of the remains of prehistoric peoples in the County. The description of ruins of forts on the knobs near Berea in the southern part of Madison by Dr. Wilbur G. Burroughs, Head of the Department of Geology at Berea College, deserves first consideration.


Indian Fort Mountain, whose entire summit was first fortified by a people who inhabited the region prior to the American Indian of Pioneer days, is three miles to the east of Berea along the Narrow Gap road. It is not a fort in the usually accepted sense, but is more accurately described as a prehistoric strong- hold in Kentucky, and among the largest in the United States.


A brief reconnaissance survey of Indian Fort was first made by Colonel Bennett Young in about 1910, but no scientific exploration or detailed map of the mountain had ever been made up to 1922 when Dr. Wilbur Greely Burroughs, Head of the Geology De- partment at Berea College, assisted by his wife Mrs. Mavis R. Burroughs, commenced their exploration and instrumental survey. Dr. Burroughs has continued his investigations for many years. The facts here given are based on his book, Geography of the Kentucky Knobs, published by the Kentucky State Geological Survey.


Indian Fort Mountain was the stronghold of the prehistoric people of southeastern Madison County, Kentucky. It is located excellently from a military viewpoint for the "fort" commands trails, now roads, leading from the mountains of eastern and southeastern Kentucky to the Knobs and Bluegrass, and, a few miles to the southwest, Boone's Gap through which important trails passed. The mountain could thus have been used as a fortress from which its warriors could have sallied out to attack all those who journeyed through the mountain passes and along


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the trails. It also was a refuge for the people of the plains in time of danger.


Indian Fort Mountain rises in steep slopes from its base to cliffs 50 to 200 feet high that border the summit, except where narrow steep sided ridges connect the mountain with near-by knobs on the north and east. The top of the mountain which is entirely within the fortified area, is 550 to 600 feet vertically above the surrounding valley lowlands and is somewhat over 200 acres in extent. The surface is flat to gently rolling. In the northern part there is a spring used at present only by animals.


Trails and even steeper slopes where an enemy could have reached the summit, were defended by stone barricades and per- pendicular stone walls. Seventeen of these defenses, eight of which are perpendicular, have been discovered by Dr. Burroughs, several since he made the accompanying map. The remains of these defenses range in height from loose stones to perpendicular walls up to three feet high, and massive stone barricades ten feet high on the upslope sides and higher down the slope. In length the walls and barricades are from three feet where they cross crev- ices in a cliff to 1200 feet intermittently along the top of a low cliff. At the head of a large ravine facing southward is a combination of stone barricade and perpendicular wall 652 feet long. It extends crescent-shape along the contour of a ravine. Near the east end the barricade extends sharply up the slope to a narrow terrace where as a perpendicular wall it continues along the top of a low cliff and ends at a high precipice. The western end of the entire barricade also ties into a cliff. Two perpendicular walls are at the center of the main barricade. Farther up the slope, a second low stone barricade was constructed along the top edge of a low cliff, but little remains of these walls border- ing the edge of the summit. The western entrance to the summit of the mountain is along a narrow, steep sided ridge and up a narrow crevice in massive sandstone. The floor of the crevice rises sharply to the mountain top. Up this joint plane 53 feet from the bottom a wall was built across the path just opposite a recess in the side of the crevice. Thus the enemy had to cross a narrow ridge under a rain of stones and arrows from the defenders, enter the narrow passage, climb 53 feet up a steep slippery slope, surmount a perpendicular wall where they would be under


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attack from the defenders hidden in the recess on the side of the crevice and from the warriors on the summit above. Similar strategically located defenses protect other places of access to the mountain top.


Behind the stone barricades and walls piles of stones the cor- rect size and shape to throw are found here and there where they were placed to repel an attack.


In a large field near the northern end of the mountain top a battle appears to have occurred. Arrow heads, roughly made stone axes and polished axes of igneous rock are found, and hundreds of pieces of limestone rock the correct size to throw are scattered throughout the field. These limestone pieces must have been carried up from lower down the mountain because the highest limestone in the bedrock, overlain by sandstone and shale, occurs at least 150 feet vertically below the battlefield.


Prehistoric graves have been discovered by Dr. Burroughs in rock-houses (small caves) in the cliffs facing the sun, but in no other locations. This indicates that these people may have been sun worshipers. Entrances to these rock-houses appeared to have originally been sealed with rocks. The floor of one rock- house was of sand beneath which were two layers of flat rocks, clay, and ten inches of soft powdery grayish bone phosphate de- rived from disintegration of the warriors bodies, mixed somewhat with sand and clay from above. Beneath this gray layer came clay, then a thin layer of charcoal, clay and sandstone bedrock. On top of the bone phosphate layer were artifacts buried with the dead warriors for use in the next life. Thus one warrior had interred with him a stone ax head, spear head, flint knife, arrow head, scraper and several pieces of muscovite mica.


Numerous rock houses and caves have also been discovered elsewhere by Dr. Burroughs in various portions of the mountain, the caves in Mammoth Cave limestone being fairly extensive. The caves were used by the people during inclement weather as char- coal from their fires has been found in the passages. Deep pits occur in the caves and care should be taken by explorers.


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tain they continued to renew the barricades and walls. It may be that later the American Indians were upon the mountain and fought there, but it is doubtful if they ever held it permanently as did the prehistoric people.


ROBE'S MOUNTAIN


To the north of Indian Fort Mountain a narrow ridge leads to Robe's Mountain. Prehistoric stone barricades were discovered by Dr. Burroughs on this mountain all facing south toward the large Indian Fort.


BASIN MOUNTAIN


Across a deep valley from the north end of Indian Fort Moun- tain, Basin Mountain rises high above the surrounding valleys ex- cept where a narrow ridge connects it to Robe's Mountain. Dr. Burroughs discovered that the summit of this mountain was fortified. He then explored and mapped the mountain and its fortifications. The summit covers about eighteen acres of rolling land along the borders of which cliffs drop 200 feet straight down except where a ravine slopes southward and the ridge leads to Robe's Mountain. Across the ravine between the tops of the cliffs a wall extends 465 feet in length. At present this rampart is in places five feet high and seven feet across. The wall is V-shaped with the apex pointing up the ravine. The defenders could thus shoot arrows and throw stones at the attackers from three sides. This wall differs in plan from the crescent-shaped wall on Indian Fort Mountain.


Entrance to Basin Mountain from the ridge on the west is de- fended by a perpendicular wall 220 feet long and still two to four feet high that extends along the south top of the ridge facing the large Indian Fort.


On the north-central edge of the summit is a roughly rectangular basin eight feet by five feet eight inches by five inches deep carved in the sandstone by the prehistoric defenders for the purpose of holding water, as there is no spring on the mountain. A smaller basin was excavated several yards to the east.


Numerous caves with dangerous pits occur on the north side of the mountain and are reached by a narrow terrace. The most westward of these caves contained a large burial mound in which a number of separate cremations had been interred. This cave faces


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north. No artifacts were buried with the dead. Since the sun's rays never enter this cave and no artifacts were buried with the dead, these people must have had a different religion from that of the tribes on the large Indian Fort.


All the walls on Basin and Robe's mountains face toward the large Indian Fort. No defense was made against an attack from any other direction. It appears, therefore, that at one time the people on Basin and Robe's mountains were besieging the de- fenders of Indian Fort Mountain where the defenses were made on all sides of the mountain.


COPPER ARMOR


A few miles to the west of Indian Fort Mountain Dr. Burroughs and assistants excavated from a prehistoric mound at the sum- mit of a low knob, copper armor plates and the remains of a chief's skull. The mound is 36 feet in diameter and four feet high at the center.




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