The Perin Village Site is an

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in the southwestern part of the

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. Located in Newtown in Hamilton County, it is believed to have been inhabited by peoples of the

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.Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 1.

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: Somerset, 1999. Perin Village is part of a prehistoric complex of

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in the Newtown vicinity; other sites in the complex include the Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound, approximately to the southeast, and the large Turner Earthworks. A mound was once located at the site; when it was destroyed for the purpose of improving a roadway in the late 1870s, it yielded many bones and pieces of charcoal.Ford, Henry A., et al.
History of Hamilton County Ohio
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: Williams, 1881, 244. Two portions of the village site are especially rich in artifacts; however, the site, in total, has a less dense concentration of surface artifacts than many other sites in the region due to its location near the

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— many floods during the site's history have covered earlier artifacts with layers of

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. It is believed that a detailed excavation of Perin Village would yield evidence of houses, hearths,

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s, and burial sites. A small number of "Hopewell-like" artifacts were once removed from the site by local resident Frederick Starr; his collection is now housed at the

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. The archaeological value of the Perin Village Site led to its placement on the

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in 1977, four years after a similar status was accorded to the Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound.

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