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Skiffes Creek Sand Spit Site
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Location Address Restricted, Newport News, Virginia
Area 0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
MPS Oakland Farm Industrial Park MRA
NRHP reference No. 83003295
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Added to NRHP February 24, 1983

Skiffes Creek Sand Spit Site is a historic archaeological site located at Newport News, Virginia. It is a well-preserved, possibly stratified archaeological site containing evidence of prehistoric habitation dating to the Early and Middle Woodland eras. The site is invaluable to documenting settlement patterning and environmental and cultural adaptation in Tidewater Virginia during the period 500 B.C. to A.D. 500.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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