Defeated Camp Burial Ground:
The McNitt Company, a group of early settlers, organized in Virginia for protection on the trip to Kentucky settlements, was camped here on "Boone's Trace".
Failing to post a guard, they were massacred by Indians on October 3, 1786.
The victims were buried here at the site of their last camp.
Fourteen families were in the McNitt party overwhelmed by Indians in October of 1786.
Descriptions of the event give the number of victims slain as from twenty to twenty four.
They were killed 1 mile east of Fariston on the banks of Laurel River in Laurel county.
Two pits received their remains, buried by local men.
Nine stones ringing them are visible (2015), without markings, some standing and some flat.
Other loose stones were knocked from the surrounding rock walls.
The commemorative stone marker, PREVIOUSLY BROKEN and in two parts, is currently standing upright again (summer 2015). It sits in front of the stone wall outside the cemetery; a few feet from the metal sign bearing the words "Defeated Camp".
Various accounts related that some survivors received refuge at Crab Orchard, and that goods of the slain were auctioned at Fort Logan to raise funds for those surviving.
In a few years, defense posts were established in the area for migrating peoples. A Kentucky highway marker stands for one of them, Modrel's Station, on 229 not far from the cemetery (photographed, in files).
The small cemetery is within Levi Jackson State Park,
and is behind McHargue's Mill and the Little Laurel River, across from one end of Boone's Trace on the lower portion of CR 1006.
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Metal deflectors are now placed at the approach to the cemetery (perhaps to help protect it?), closing one lane - proceed with caution if driving, 2015.
NOTE:JULY 2016: The metal deflectors have also been bent!
The information on this memorial, photo of the repaired marker, and request for designation of Cenotaph, were the work of find a grave member "aye ain't".
The McNitt Company, a group of early settlers, organized in Virginia for protection on the trip to Kentucky settlements, was camped here on "Boone's Trace".
Failing to post a guard, they were massacred by Indians on October 3, 1786.
The victims were buried here at the site of their last camp.
Fourteen families were in the McNitt party overwhelmed by Indians in October of 1786.
Descriptions of the event give the number of victims slain as from twenty to twenty four.
They were killed 1 mile east of Fariston on the banks of Laurel River in Laurel county.
Two pits received their remains, buried by local men.
Nine stones ringing them are visible (2015), without markings, some standing and some flat.
Other loose stones were knocked from the surrounding rock walls.
The commemorative stone marker, PREVIOUSLY BROKEN and in two parts, is currently standing upright again (summer 2015). It sits in front of the stone wall outside the cemetery; a few feet from the metal sign bearing the words "Defeated Camp".
Various accounts related that some survivors received refuge at Crab Orchard, and that goods of the slain were auctioned at Fort Logan to raise funds for those surviving.
In a few years, defense posts were established in the area for migrating peoples. A Kentucky highway marker stands for one of them, Modrel's Station, on 229 not far from the cemetery (photographed, in files).
The small cemetery is within Levi Jackson State Park,
and is behind McHargue's Mill and the Little Laurel River, across from one end of Boone's Trace on the lower portion of CR 1006.
- - - - -
Metal deflectors are now placed at the approach to the cemetery (perhaps to help protect it?), closing one lane - proceed with caution if driving, 2015.
NOTE:JULY 2016: The metal deflectors have also been bent!
The information on this memorial, photo of the repaired marker, and request for designation of Cenotaph, were the work of find a grave member "aye ain't".
Defeated Camp Burial Ground:
The McNitt Company, a group of early settlers, organized in Virginia for protection on the trip to Kentucky settlements, was camped here on "Boone's Trace".
Failing to post a guard, they were massacred by Indians on October 3, 1786.
The victims were buried here at the site of their last camp.
Fourteen families were in the McNitt party overwhelmed by Indians in October of 1786.
Descriptions of the event give the number of victims slain as from twenty to twenty four.
They were killed 1 mile east of Fariston on the banks of Laurel River in Laurel county.
Two pits received their remains, buried by local men.
Nine stones ringing them are visible (2015), without markings, some standing and some flat.
Other loose stones were knocked from the surrounding rock walls.
The commemorative stone marker, PREVIOUSLY BROKEN and in two parts, is currently standing upright again (summer 2015). It sits in front of the stone wall outside the cemetery; a few feet from the metal sign bearing the words "Defeated Camp".
Various accounts related that some survivors received refuge at Crab Orchard, and that goods of the slain were auctioned at Fort Logan to raise funds for those surviving.
In a few years, defense posts were established in the area for migrating peoples. A Kentucky highway marker stands for one of them, Modrel's Station, on 229 not far from the cemetery (photographed, in files).
The small cemetery is within Levi Jackson State Park,
and is behind McHargue's Mill and the Little Laurel River, across from one end of Boone's Trace on the lower portion of CR 1006.
- - - - -
Metal deflectors are now placed at the approach to the cemetery (perhaps to help protect it?), closing one lane - proceed with caution if driving, 2015.
NOTE:JULY 2016: The metal deflectors have also been bent!
The information on this memorial, photo of the repaired marker, and request for designation of Cenotaph, were the work of find a grave member "aye ain't".
The McNitt Company, a group of early settlers, organized in Virginia for protection on the trip to Kentucky settlements, was camped here on "Boone's Trace".
Failing to post a guard, they were massacred by Indians on October 3, 1786.
The victims were buried here at the site of their last camp.
Fourteen families were in the McNitt party overwhelmed by Indians in October of 1786.
Descriptions of the event give the number of victims slain as from twenty to twenty four.
They were killed 1 mile east of Fariston on the banks of Laurel River in Laurel county.
Two pits received their remains, buried by local men.
Nine stones ringing them are visible (2015), without markings, some standing and some flat.
Other loose stones were knocked from the surrounding rock walls.
The commemorative stone marker, PREVIOUSLY BROKEN and in two parts, is currently standing upright again (summer 2015). It sits in front of the stone wall outside the cemetery; a few feet from the metal sign bearing the words "Defeated Camp".
Various accounts related that some survivors received refuge at Crab Orchard, and that goods of the slain were auctioned at Fort Logan to raise funds for those surviving.
In a few years, defense posts were established in the area for migrating peoples. A Kentucky highway marker stands for one of them, Modrel's Station, on 229 not far from the cemetery (photographed, in files).
The small cemetery is within Levi Jackson State Park,
and is behind McHargue's Mill and the Little Laurel River, across from one end of Boone's Trace on the lower portion of CR 1006.
- - - - -
Metal deflectors are now placed at the approach to the cemetery (perhaps to help protect it?), closing one lane - proceed with caution if driving, 2015.
NOTE:JULY 2016: The metal deflectors have also been bent!
The information on this memorial, photo of the repaired marker, and request for designation of Cenotaph, were the work of find a grave member "aye ain't".
Inscription
McNitt's Defeat
Oct. 3, 1786
Kentucky's Worst
Indian Massacre
Kentucky's
Sesquicentennial
1792-1942
Gravesite Details
Broken, has damage and wear.
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