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GW Jeep Site

archaeological site in West Virginia and Virginia, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ16975363 ↗
Source-derived summary

The GW Jeep Site is an archaeological site which spans the border between Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and Highland County, Virginia. The site is located in two national forests; the West Virginia portion is within the Monongahela National Forest, while the Virginia portion is within the George Washington National Forest. A Native American camp where stone tools were made was located at the site between 1,000 and 5,000 years ago. The site was named after a Jeep owned by the George Washington National Forest, which was in the area when forest employees first noted the site.

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 23, 1993.

Editorial summary

“GW Jeep Site” enters the record as archaeological site in West Virginia and Virginia, USA. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jeep, Site and archaeological can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jeep, Site and archaeological.
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“GW Jeep Site” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jeep, Site and archaeological provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16975363. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “GW Jeep Site” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.