Address Restricted, Gala, Virginia. County/parish: Botetourt.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 17, 2010. NRIS 10000088.
1 contributing site.
Gala Site is a historic archaeological site located near Gala, Botetourt County, Virginia. The site was occupied by Native Americans from circa 3000-1000 B.C. to ca. 900–1607. Archaeological resources at the site include intact remains ranging in function from mortuary to architectural to subsistence as well as community refuse. The site has the potential to provide scholars invaluable information about Native American funerary practices, settlement patterns, ethnic diversity, and other information about the people who inhabited the upper James River portion of southwestern Virginia.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
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