HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Indian Mound
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Indian mound:
                  1936 Nov. 11
                  Research made by Howard Hiner

Cemetery Location:  9 miles south of McDowell, Virginia, thence .5 mile off of 
                    the road.
                    Highland County, Virginia


DATE:

Prior to 1745.

OWNERS:

Mrs. Herbert Bradshaw, Clover Creek, Virginia. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

This mound is about one hundred and eighty feet in circumference around the 
lower edge.  It is covered with grass and at the center of the mound the ground 
is elevated about three feet higher than the level bottomland surrounding it.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

In plowing over this mound, it is related that, parts of skulls, tomahawks, 
beads, parched corn and other things were discovered.  The surrounding ground 
was at one time littered with Indian darts and even yet many can be found.  It 
is generally believed that an extensive battle occurred here at some time 
between two opposing tribes.

This mound is only three miles distant from where the old stockaded fort stood 
and it is thought the Indians were frequently in this territory.

This is one of the tracts of land surveyed by Thomas Lewis, and among the first 
places in this county to be settled by the white man.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mrs. Herbert Bradshaw, Mrs. Tom Rivercomb, and Mr. Seabrook McClung, all of Clover Creek, Virginia

Historical  Records of Highland County.

Personal inspection.

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