It is estimated the burials here may predate the French and Indian Wars, or to approximately 1750. This cemetery is also called "Indian Bottom Farm."

It is located in the Walkers Creek District, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The burial mound on William Horn's farm in 1901 was described as being East of Jump Mountain, about 100 yards South of the Walkers and Hayes Creek junction, and about 3 miles from the Eastern entrance to Goshen Pass. Another says it is about 2 miles north of Rockbridge Baths. According to locals, the paths of the creeks were altered in the 1969 flood, following Hurricane Camille.

The 8 page Report of the Exploration of the Hayes' Creek Mound, Rockbridge County, Va. Explored Sept., 190l, by Edward P. Valentine, for the Valentine museum, Richmond Va (1903), Publisher: Richmond, Va., Valentine museum has the complete report on this burial site. The 8 pages contains, 1 written, 6 of photos, and 1 diagram. It was also published in James Willson McClung's Historical Significance of Rockbridge County, Virginia, Staunton, VA, McClure Co., Inc, 1939, page 26-28 and in the 1930 Lexington Gazette.

It includes a diagram with measurements, etc. The mound "base was a slightly elongated circle, 60' in diameter N. W. and S. E., by 64' N. E. and S. W., altitude 4 1/2', top level and of 38 - 42' diameter."

It details how the excavation took place and what was discovered. There were four levels of burials all accurately placed and positioned. Skeletons of 8 dogs were found beside the humans. In the center were remains of burned bones and layers of bodies underneath stones. Shell beads, pendants and even a sharks tooth were found around the necks of some, mostly female. Two smoking pipes were found close to the heads of two men. The skulls, skeletons and bones of more than 400 people were sent to the Valentine Museum for further research. :(

E.P. Valentine wrote "The skeletons of 376 men, women and children, in a remarkably well-preserved condition, were found in the three upper burial levels before the stone pile covering the centre was reached. The bodies were lying on their sides, right or left, indiscriminately, with the arms folded upon their breasts, the hands being extended in front of their faces, the legs drawn up in front of the breasts in such close proximity to the bodies as to indicate that the bodies had been bound up in this compact form before burial. Single burials were frequent, but many bodies were found two together, or in groups of three to twenty. Several had from one to three large stones upon their heads and breasts, as if to protect them from disinterment by wild beasts."

This source references Thomas Jefferson report that believed the Massawommee Indians inhabited the area from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Ohio River. Massawomee is sometimes spelled with one m instead of two.

I checked the source, Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, pages 221-222 and found: "Westward of all these tribes, beyond the mountains, and extending to the great lakes, were the Massawomecs, a most powerful confederacy, who harrassed unremittingly the Powhatans and Manahoacs. These were probably the ancestors of the tribes known at present by the name of the Six Nations." "The Monacans and their friends, better known latterly by the name of Tuscaroras, were probably connected with the Massawomecs, or Five Nations."

Another source says instead they are Monacan Indians. Check out Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia, edited by Linda S. Cordell, Kent Lightfoot, Francis McManamon, George Milner, Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. Westport, CT, 2008, page 113 discusses the Hayes Creek Mound Site, a Monacan mound.