Have you ever found an arrowhead?

Almost ninety years ago, one Lawrence Countian found an arrowhead with quite a tale to tell.

According to the ‘Lawrence News,’ during the week of April 19, 1926, local man Webster Pearl went into the mouth of a collapsed cave on the south side of Crowson Creek near Lawrenceburg, just a “short distance” from the Crowson Mill.

In the mouth of the cave, Pearl discovered a deer skeleton with a flint arrowhead lodged in the spine, indicating that the animal had probably been killed by Indians.

Although Pearl was not sure how the deer had come to die in the cave, he estimated from the location of its injuries that it had not gotten there under its own power, and he reckoned that the Indians must have left it there.

The ‘News’ goes on to say that a hill just above the cave had yielded a lot of flints and arrowheads, indicating that the cave and the surrounding area had probably once served as an Indian encampment.