AREA HISTORY:  Indian Relics, Dover Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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INDIAN RELICS – Page 679

On the road leading from Dover to Strinestown on farms now owned by Henry 
Stouffer and Henry Rahauser, along Fox’s Run, Indian graves, mounds, arrow heads 
and other traces of our aborigines have been discovered.  That section was 
doubtless a favorite hunting ground, and evidently for a time the site of an 
Indian village.  A mortar, which was the common instrument used by the Indians 
to grind corn or maize, was found on this spot by George Ensminger of 
Strinestown.  There is a large stationary mortar near Harmony Grove Church, in 
this township.  It was hewn out of a large rock.