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Townsend Site

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NRHP Reference #
  
78000919

Added to NRHP
  
1 September 1978

Area
  
11 ha

Nearest city
  
Lewes

The Townsend Site is a major prehistoric Native American site in Sussex County, Delaware. The Late Woodland site includes at least 90 significant features, including numerous burial sites. The site received its first thorough study in 1948, and was the first Late Woodland site in the state to be examined in consultation with professional archaeologists of the Smithsonian Institution, and resulted in the creation of a typology of ceramics found.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

References

Townsend Site Wikipedia


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