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County: Montgomery

The Gaitskill Mound

Marker Number: 

1655

Location: 

Northern bypass, KY 686, Mt. Sterling

Indian Mound attributed to Adena people, who inhabited Ohio Valley ca. 800 B.C. to A.D. 700. They began cultivating simple crops, bringing about a mixed hunting and farming economy. Central to Adena life were rituals involving cremation and mound building. Engraved stone tablets found here indicate mound to be Adena. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, 1975.

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