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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Page Site, Kentucky Alternative Name: Lost City, KentuckyCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 27.562 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Lewisburg, KY
Latitude: 36.976576N Longitude: 86.905469W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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The Page Site was a huge mound complex with 67 mounds, but today only 30 mounds remain. It was once famously known as "Lost City" and was developed as a tourist site with a museum erected on a large platform mound. In the 1960s the venture failed and the museum was torn down.
Rafinesque probably visited the site in the 1800s while it was still being inhabited by Native Americans. In 1928-29, the site was partially excavated by the University of Kentucky revealing numerous stone box graves; many large, well-constructed stone burial chambers in burial mounds; and huge numbers of cremations and burials.[2] So many skulls and skeletal remains were found that Raymond Vietzen wrote in the 1940s that "wagonloads of bones" were removed and taken from the site.[3]
References:
1. Wikipedia: Rafinesque, Constantine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Samuel_Rafinesque<2>
2. Little, Gregory PhD., Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016), pp. 154.
3. Vietzen, Raymond (1946). "Fraternizing with the ancient Kentuckians". Ohio Indian Relic Collectors Society Bulletin. 16: 3-13.
Further reading and information:
Western Kentucky University digitalcommons ~ Lost City incorporation papers
digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4454/
Directions:From Lewisburg, KY via Lost City Rd. and spur, 3.4 mi.
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