This is where the trail starts down the valley and has long been abandoned. The sycamore trees with their white bark in winter are very spectacular. The river birch may have been used by the Indians to build canoes. Some birch trees are large enough. They also used hickory and elm.
Many basswood grow in the coves which provided wood for baskets and buckets.
Sugar maple syrup and maple sugar were learned from the American Indians. Rock shelters, often have hominy or Indian Mill holes in sandstone within or outside the rock shelters. At Mike Shea's farm, now occupied by John Williams and family, there is a rock shelter with a hominy hole. Important Indian Paths crossed Raccoon Creek valley. The Hunting Path, as I call it, went through just above Moonville from Athens and the east and on over the ridge to cross Raccoon near Coalmont Hollow.