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Buckner Site — Fort Ancient villages on Strodes Creek
Near Paris in Bourbon County, the Buckner Site (15Bb12) holds two circular Fort Ancient villages around central plazas, occupied mainly about A.D. 1200–1400 and into the early 1500s.
Wall-trench houses, shell- and limestone-tempered pottery, triangular points, and a stone-paved McCray Mound mortuary area show maize farmers tied into Ohio Valley exchange. University of Kentucky WPA crews dug there in 1939; later work mapped the rings. It was listed on the National Register in 1983 (address restricted) — Bluegrass country that was already a settled farming landscape centuries before Paris or Bourbon whiskey.
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Snowden, Shannon. "Buckner Site — Fort Ancient villages on Strodes Creek." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 24, 2026. Last revised September 24, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/buckner-site-fort-ancient-villages-on-strodes-creek/.
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Snowden, Shannon. "Buckner Site — Fort Ancient villages on Strodes Creek." Kentucky History Drive, published 24 Sept. 2026, last revised 24 Sept. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/buckner-site-fort-ancient-villages-on-strodes-creek/.
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