Area less than one acre Added to NRHP 3 June 1993 | NRHP Reference # 93000493 | |
Nearest city Mills Mountain, West Virginia MPS Rockshelters on the Gauley Ranger District, Monongahela National Forest MPS | ||
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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Craig Run East Fork Rockshelter Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA