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Union County · Prehistoric · 1400 – 1700

Slack Farm (15Un28), Union County

On the Ohio River floodplain in Union County, Slack Farm was a large Caborn-Welborn Mississippian village occupied about 1400–1700 CE.

Across roughly 75 acres, residents built at least seven residential clusters with wall-trench wattle-and-daub houses, deep corn-storage pits, and cemeteries oriented toward plazas. Long-distance trade reached north for catlinite and south for Nodena points and marine shell; by about 1550, glass beads and reworked brass show indirect European contact.

After severe looting in 1987, Kentucky Heritage Council, University of Kentucky, and Indiana University crews—with hundreds of volunteers—mapped more than 450 looter holes and documented the village layout before reinterring remains on site.

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Chicago

Snowden, Shannon. "Slack Farm (15Un28), Union County." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 27, 2026. Last revised September 27, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/slack-farm-15un28-union-county/.

MLA

Snowden, Shannon. "Slack Farm (15Un28), Union County." Kentucky History Drive, published 27 Sept. 2026, last revised 27 Sept. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/slack-farm-15un28-union-county/.

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