Accokeek Creek Site

Accokeek Creek Site

Infobox_nrhp | name =Accokeek Creek Site
nrhp_type =nhl


caption =
nearest_city= Accokeek, Maryland
locmapin = Maryland
area =
architect=
architecture=
designated= July 19, 1964cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=688&ResourceType=Site
title=Accokeek Creek Site |accessdate=2008-02-08|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = October 15, 1966cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
refnum=66000909

Accokeek Creek Site, also known as Moyaone is an archaeological site in Maryland.

According to the National Park Service, "Occupied intermittently from about 2000 BC, this site, on a low sandy Potomac River terrace opposite Mount Vernon, is remarkable for its variety and concentration of human occupation sites. Accokeek included a palisaded village that was occupied from ca. A.D. 1300 to ca. 1630. The site has been used by archeologists to define a culture-history sequence in prehistoric archeology for the Mid-Atlantic region."

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.

References

External links

* [http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=11&FROM=NRNHLList.aspx Accokeek Creek Site, Prince Georges County] , including photo in 1997, at Maryland Historical Trust


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