Sorry if someone else has already posted this- quite fascinating, I hope they can preserve it. It amazes me that there are so many of the very early colonial sites still being found in Virginia. Glad they found it before the developers did. A month or two ago, the Fredericksburg Freelance Star had an article about an old mine site being found in Stafford County, I think it was. They are pretty sure it was the same mine being mined by the natives, and that John Smith visited. It was inside a little rocky cave entrance on a wooded hillside, it showed signs of having been worked later, but in some areas and on the ceiling, the workings were with shells and native technology. Of course, housing developments are going up in the area, but they didn't reveal the exact location, in hopes of somehow protecting it. Nancy ------- > > Message: > Look what they found at Falling Creek! > > Headline: > > Find is earliest evidence of heavy industry in New World > > URL: http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite? > c=MGArticle&cid=1149192746293&pagename=RTD/MGArticle/ > RTD_BasicArticle&path=!news&s=1063629688048 > > Why not check out our other great articles at http:// > www.timesdispatch.com? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > DISCLAIMER: While all rights to the article contained in this > E-mail message are held by Media General Operations, Inc., Media > General Operations, Inc. is not the sender of this E-mail > message. Media General Operations, Inc. does not confirm the > E-mail address of the sender of this E-mail message. > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html