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40 YEARS AGO
December 9, 1965
Emphasis at the Historical Society’s Friday night meeting was definitely on Indian life in ihis area. After Mr. George Davis, filling in for the chairman of the Artifacts Committee, Mr. T.J Pillar , spoke and demonstrated that Indian relics are everywhere beneath our feet, 'here will be a new rush and search for arrowheads, tomahawks, hammers, tools and uten'nls. Mr. Pillar, who could not report because of illness, sent in a large and mounted collection of artifacts found on his farm on the upper Hazel River. He listed them as found in an area of about one hundred feet square on what may have been in earlier times an island in the river. The site would be ideal for a village. He said that the area is a protected valley, a good hunting location as it controlled the small valley poming from the mountains, "and the stream must have afforded excellent Wishing. .Mr. Davis added his collection of artifacts which were picked up around the Motel for > -he most part. They were most interesting in '. hat besides the usual arrows and hammers he found many pieces of stone utensils which u hght mean that a permanent Indian camp or frading Post existed here in the Town of Washington. He urged that we check more closely on the odd and worn stones we find .’ound our fence rows and in the fields after •‘he first rain following plowing. ! lie Historical Society is planning a Museum •md there will be much interest in the collec"iun of relics. Anyone knowing of a concentration of artifacts at any particular area is invited to let the Society know, and an investiga1 ion by the Committee on Indian Relics will 1 beck it out. We have no history of Indian
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