Craig Run East Fork Rockshelter Explained

Craig Run East Fork Rockshelter
Nearest City:Mills Mountain, West Virginia
Added:June 3, 1993
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:93000493

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.[1]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Rockshelters on the Gauley Ranger District, Monongahela National Forest. Anne M. Jensen. January 1993. State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation.