Martinsville Fish Dam | |
Coordinates: | 36.6529°N -79.8715°W |
Added: | January 21, 1974 |
Refnum: | 74002128 |
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.[1]
The dam was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.