Archaeological investigations here sought to learn more about Boone's station, a defensive settlement built because of the threat of Indian attacks during the Revolutionary War. The station enclosed about half an acre, housed about fifteen families, and included a well inside, with additional water available from a spring downhill from the station. Excavations by the University of Kentucky uncovered stone foundations of the station cabins and a short section of the stockade ditch built by the Boones. They also revealed the large stone foundation of the house Robert Frank built in 1795 on the same alignment as the cabins. By then the stockade was no longer needed and had been torn down, but the cabins remained useful for housing slaves and for other purposes. The station cabins varied in size, and each had a chimney and fireplace at one end, while the Frank house was a two-story stone structure with chimneys on each end and a deep cellar. The research remains incomplete, and more archaeological digs are needed to uncover the whole story left behind by Kentucky's early pioneers.