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Defeated Camp Burial Ground

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