Allendale Chert Quarries Archeological District
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Allendale Chert Quarries Archeological District
OR:
Allendale Chert Quarries Archeological District on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Allendale Chert Quarries Archeological District is a set of 14 prehistoric
archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology an ...
s located near
Martin Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austral ...
,
Allendale County, South Carolina Allendale County is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,039, making it the least populous county in South Carolina. Its county seat is Allendale. History Allendale County was formed in 191 ...
. The district includes the quarries and sites related to the processing of
chert Chert () is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2). Chert is characteristically of biological origin, but may also occur inorganically as a prec ...
located on the bank of the
Savannah River The Savannah River is a major river in the southeastern United States, forming most of the border between the states of South Carolina and Georgia. Two tributaries of the Savannah, the Tugaloo River and the Chattooga River, form the norther ...
at distances of up to miles away from the river. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1985.


References

Quarries in the United States Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Allendale County, South Carolina {{AllendaleCountySC-NRHP-stub