Skiffes Creek Sand Spit Site

Address Restricted, Newport News (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Newport News.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 24, 1983. NRIS 83003295.

1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • 44NN7

From Wikipedia:

Skiffes Creek Sand Spit Site

Skiffes Creek Sand Spit Site is a historic archaeological site located at Newport News, Virginia. It is a well-preserved, possibly stratified archaeological site containing evidence of prehistoric habitation dating to the Early and Middle Woodland eras. The site is invaluable to documenting settlement patterning and environmental and cultural adaptation in Tidewater Virginia during the period 500 B.C. to A.D. 500.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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