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Murry Site

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NRHP Reference #
  
80003540

Year built
  
1550

Area
  
2 ha

Added to NRHP
  
10 December 1980

Murry Site

Location
  
2 miles (3.2 km) south of Washington Boro in Manor Township, Pennsylvania

The Murry Site is a prehistoric archaeological site located in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is the site of a large, stockaded Shenks Ferry village. It was excavated in 1967, and identified as having been inhabited for 10 years, sometime between 1450 and 1550. They identified 46 burials.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

References

Murry Site Wikipedia