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tion, and on Mr. Jon. Webb's farm. Articles of manufacture are axes, 

 celts, arrovr and spear points. Here a profusion of articles have been 

 found, along with some fragments of ornaments. Mr. Webb and his 

 sons, in the process of tilling this field, have secured a vast amount of the 

 arrow-points, some of them very fine specimens. The shop covers about 

 2 acres of ground. In the writer's cabinet is a sledge which Mr. E. 

 Webb gave him in the spring of 1880, turned over in the process of plow- 

 ing. This sledge weighs 22J pounds ; the groove being complete, also 

 the pole, the bit being chipped and pecked down ready for grinding. 

 This is an excellent specimen. Every year when tilling the field in 

 which this shop is located the owners secure a goodly number of relics. 

 In the adjoining field on the north the oldest settlers say there was 

 an Indian camping-ground, and the trail passed through the northeast 

 corner portion of the field'in which this shop is located. 



The old block-houses which were erected along the valley some sev- 

 enty-five years ago have nearly all been removed, and the spot where 

 they once stood will soon be unknown. The old settlers are passing 

 away rapidly, and they alone retain their history. Here in this valley 

 they settled down in 1803 and 1804, in somewhat compact colonies, and 

 erected these forts for preservation in time of danger from the then 

 savages. Of these but two remain, one on Mr. William McClure's farm, 

 a little northeast of Brookville, Ko. 89 ; the other on Mr. Jon. Power's 

 farm, No. 81. This was weather-boarded and converted into a dwelling, 

 and has been occupied as such up to the present time, but the owner 

 contemplates its removal. Thus the last one of these forts whose rude 

 walls had protected our first inhabitants from the deadly arrows of the 

 red men will be gone to give place to a more commodious dwelling 



Block-house ^N'o. 67 is in Sec. 28, T. 12 K, R. 2 W., and in the south- 

 east corner of the northwest quarter section, on the east side of the 

 village of Dunlapsville. This block-house was erected by Mr. William 

 Nickles in 1806. 



Block-house No. 68 is in Sec. 30, T. 14 K, E. 14 E., in the southwest 

 corner of the northeast quarter section, and just opposite the mouth 

 of Richland Creek. It was erected in 1805. 



Block-house No. 81 is in Sec. 33, T. 10 N., R. 2 W., in the southwest 

 corner of the southwest quarter section, erected by Obadiah Eustes, in 

 1804. 



Block -house No. 87 is in Sec. 21, T. 9 N., R. 2 W., near the southwest 

 corner of the northwest quarter section. 



Camping-grounds and trails have been laid down on the map and 

 sectional drawings as correctly as it were possible. To accomplish this 

 has been quite a task and involved writing to a ^reat manj^ who are 

 acquainted with facts, who do not now reside within the county. The 

 greater portion of the knowledge thus gained was from the oldest in- 

 habitants who were born and raised in this community. 



No. 09 is in Sec. 31, T. 10 N., R, 1 W., in the southwest corner of the 

 southwest quarter section. 



