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Martinsville Fish Dam

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NRHP Reference #
  
74002128

Added to NRHP
  
21 January 1974

Area
  
6,100 m²

Nearest city
  
Martinsville, Virginia

Martinsville Fish Dam

The Martinsville Fish Dam is a Native American weir in the Smith River near Martinsville, Virginia. The weir is a rough wall of piled rocks in a V shape with the point of the V downstream. At an opening in that point a basket could be used to catch fish that were funneled to that point by the walls of the weir.

The dam was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

Martinsville Fish Dam Wikipedia