The Crab Orchard Archaeological Site is located in the mountainous
area of Southwest Virginia
near Pisgah, on the Clinch River,
about four miles west of Tazewell,
in Tazewell County. Taking its
name from a grove of crab apple trees found in the valley by the first English
settlers in the 1770s, the site shows the location of a Virginia Indian town that dates to between
ca. AD 1400 and 1600 during the Late Woodland Period. Excavations in 1971. . .
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