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Revolutionary and Civil War history abounds in Virginia and pre-colonial history too, is documented Still, Rappahannock-based archaeologist Dr. Pat Curry said there is much to be learned from any historic renovation, of any age site.

“We can discover so much,” Curry said sifting through a pile of sandy soil Hough had piled alongside one of the gravestones. She looked south, towards the open river bottom. “I think this would have been a very likely hunting ground for Native Americans, just as it was a nice site for a home in Colonial days.”

Curry said she hopes to find more about the area’s even earlier history through Houghs work. She said another neighbor, adjacent to the Poe’s Run site, found stone tools and spear points dated thousands of years old by Smithsonian scientists. “It’s very exciting,” she said of

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