Laurel Run Rockshelter Explained

Laurel Run Rockshelter
Nearest City:Coe, West Virginia
Added:June 3, 1993
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:93000491

Laurel Run Rockshelter is a historic archaeological site located near Coe, 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. There are some indications that the Laurel Run rock shelter may have been utilized during the Early Archaic period, c. 8000-6000 B. C.[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.