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Greenup County · Native · 1550 – 1650

Hardin Village (15Gp22)

On the Ohio floodplain in Greenup County near South Shore, Hardin Village was a late Fort Ancient town occupied from the late 1500s to the mid-1600s and covering more than ten acres.

University of Kentucky digs in 1939 and again in the 2010s mapped large bark-walled houses (about 50–70 by 24–29 feet), storage and trash pits, and family cemeteries with feasting hearths. Triangular endscrapers point to intensive hide work for long-distance exchange—marine shell and brass among the imports—just as the protohistoric Ohio Valley was tipping toward abandonment.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Hardin Village (15Gp22)." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 12, 2026. Last revised October 2, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/hardin-village-15gp22/.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Hardin Village (15Gp22)." Kentucky History Drive, published 12 Sept. 2026, last revised 2 Oct. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/hardin-village-15gp22/.

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