Indian Corn Grinders

 

Finding Indian corn grinders in the canyons near our home was like finding a bid of history right in our back yard. Wow Indians had lived right at that spot in the past. Here’s what we found.

 

 

Indian Corn Grinders

 

The boys from Stark Street in Phillips, Texas, wandered all over the canyons east of our house. Down close to Dixon Creek there was this large hill that was flat on the top. We climbed to the top of that hill and up on top we found about a dozen Indian corn grinder holes six to eight inches deep in the flat limestone rock on top of the hill that had been worn out by the Indian maidens with a round granite rock grinding corn many moons ago.

 

 

The Indian corn grinders were found up on top of that flat hill which seemed like a perfect place for an Indian village

 

 

 

Every time we got down in that area, we climbed that hill and checked them out again. It was obvious that an Indian village once existed on top of that hill at some point in the past. It was the perfect spot for a village as you could see for miles in all directions and no one could sneak up on you. Dixon creek was also very close supplying a good source of water.

 

 

 

Indian corn grinders cut in limestone next to this Indian village is what I imagined the area to look like when the Indians lived on that hill way back when.

 

 

 

As we climbed that hill, I always looked for arrowheads. I found two or three over the years that we visited the corn grinders.

 

 

Arrowheads found on the side of the hill near the old Indian village. 

 

 

 

About five miles up Dixon Creek on a hill overlooking the Creek some of the Phillips High School students dug up the grave of an Indian. The skeleton and all the artifacts in the grave were displayed in the Phillips School museum as long as I went to school there.
Thank for reading Indian Corn Grinders,
Bill