Craig Run East Fork Rockshelter

Address Restricted, Mills Mountain, West Virginia. County/parish: Webster.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 03, 1993. NRIS 93000493.

1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • 46-Wb-20
  • Rockshelter 9

From Wikipedia:

Craig Run East Fork Rockshelter

Craig Run East Fork Rockshelter is a historic archaeological site located near Mills Mountain, Webster County, West Virginia. It is one of a number of prehistoric rock shelters on the Gauley Ranger District, Monongahela National Forest, that are known to have been utilized prehistorically from the Middle Archaic through the Late Woodland period, c. 6000 B.C. – 1200 A.D. In more recent history, the Craig Run rock shelter is known to have served as a stable for a donkey which was employed in the locust post industry.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

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