I learned to look for Indian relics when I was a very young lad, in the year of 1954.

Back then, there were a lot of remains of old villages throughout the county back. Some have asked me how we knew where to look. There were certain things that would tip off a person off that there may have been a village in a given area.

First, if you came upon an area where the ground had a lot of flint rock lying around, that was a good place to start. If it had flint rock and old broken pottery, you have definitely found a village. Upon careful observation one could find arrowheads, spear heads, corn pounders and a variety of scrapers. Generally, a short distance from a village was a burial ground. Many tribes didn’t bury their dead. They propped them up on an elevated device above ground. But in our area, they buried their dead underground in a mound.