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This is a map of the "old intrenchment" marked "3" in the ac- -q O0 companying map by William D. Hixon. The ;: elevation in the circle rises four feet above the .. plain. One-foot contour intervals would make too many lines upon the sharply rising mound, so five-foot intervals are used.. The line beyond the tree and the bow and arrows, represents the upper edge of the scarp, from which the slope to Howard's Upper Creek is very steep. For many years the settlers plowed up, from the line of the circle, the burnt-off stubs of the palisade. 4
Vol. 6 ] The Filson Club History Quarterly 379 gate would be.... The gate posts and cabin were then old when these men went to make the entries there.... A squaw ax, queensware, ax all eye, gun barrel, which I think I saw, etc., ploughed up.... Down where Eastin's Mill is . . . there was a sign of corn hills there. It was down by Lulbegrud, as if the fence had all rotten down, and the place overgrown with weeds."26 In 1886 William D. Hixon, of IY[aysville, sent to Dr. Lyman C. Draper a sketch map entitled "Plan of works at Indian Old Fields, Clark Co., Ky." It is in the archives of The State Historical Society of Wisconsin and is designated as 7C1. It sets out the locations of the remains of Eskippakithiki as found by the white settlers and shows their relations to Howard's Upper Creek and Lulbegrud Creek. From this it is seen--what the local people have always known--that the village was on Howard's Upper Creek, rather than on Lulbegrud; but the latter name sounded so much like an Indian word that Ficklin, Brinton, Draper, and most of the early historians, were attracted by it and considered it the proper stream near which to locate the town. CATAHECASSA OR BLACK HOOF, INDIAN CHIEF: Clark County sent a company to the War of 1812 under Captain Asa K. Lewis, a grandson of General Andrew Lewis, the hero of Point Pleasant. Amongst his soldiers was a young man named Beall, who was captured at the River Raisin and ordered to run the gauntlet. Black Hoof, learning that he was a native of Indian Old Fields, claimed him and took him to his own cabin and protected him until he could return home. Upon invitation, Black Hoof spent the spring and summer of 1816 with his young friend, going over again the scenes of his boyh(iod, meeting the people and telling them tales of the Indian days of yore. He had been the friend of the Americans throughout the War, and everywhere was the honored guest. He told them he had been born there over a hundred years before, which is at variance with the story of his life secured from him by Colonel John Johnston. There is a picture of him published in Smith's History of Kentucky, the original of which Smith says, in 1900, belongs to the Polytechnic Society of Louisville. That Society's effects were later" acquired by the Louisville Free Public Library but this picture is not among them. Otto A. Rothert, secretary of The Filson Club, made a careful search there and elsewhere for the original and is still trying to locate it.
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