On the east side of the Little Miami River between the two bridges, Route 350 and Interstate 71, stood a former Fort Ancient Indian village now known as Anderson Village, occupied for about 20 years between AD 1000 and 1200. Clifford Anderson, who owned the property, excavated the site between 1893 and 1936, uncovering garbage pits, house post patterns, and burials. He recovered thousands of artifacts, some more than four feet below the present surface, including projectile points, knives, hammers, axes, pottery, shells, and bone tools. During the latter half of the 1800s, a small town called Fort Ancient stood in the valley with a schoolhouse, post office, general store, hotel, church, and railroad station. Its estimated population of 300 abandoned the town after the 1913 flood destroyed much of the area. Fort Ancient State Memorial consists of 768 acres, 85 percent of them woodland. The earth walls enclose about 126 acres, and the remaining 642 acres include the Anderson Village site in the valley and land on both sides of Route 350. The property extends to the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge, Interstate 71, which at 275 feet above the valley floor is one of the highest bridges in Ohio. The distance from the overlook to the bridge is 1.75 miles, and if the earth walls were placed in a straight line, they would extend more than one mile beyond the bridge.