Submitted by: Sheila Kidwell

The McNitt Company, a group of early settlers organized in Virginia for protection on the trip to Kentucky settlements, was camped here on Boone's Trace. Failing to post a guard they were massacred by Indians on October 3, 1786. The victims were buried here at the site of their last camp.

State Marker 102, 2 miles South of London, US 25, Laurel County

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