Indian Village/Indian Walls
Inscription
In the bottomland towards Kanawha River was an extensive Indian village site. Excavations, 1961-62, established three main occupations: a Hopewellian one of about A.D. 500, a later Woodland Indian one of about A.D. 1000, and finally a Fort Ancient (probably Shawnee) town of about A.D. 1500. Over 60 burials have been recorded from the village area as well as many storage pits, and evidence of houses and palisades.
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On the summit of Armstrong Mountain to the south are found the "mystery walls", short windrows of rock straddling the mountain's flat top. They were probably constructed between A.D. 1 and 500 by Hopewellian peoples of the village in the bottom. Their function is unknown, but was probably ceremonial. Kanawha black flint stratum occurs below the walls and was quarried by Indians. Flint workshop areas are found on the mountaintop.
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Sources
More markers in Fayette
West Virginia Institute of Technology
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Fayette County/Greenbrier County
Formed, 1831, from Nicholas, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Logan.
Jackson's Mother
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