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Stone House Site

archaeological site in Virginia, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ16985076 ↗
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The Stone House Site is a historic house site in James City County, Virginia, near Toano. It is the location of house ruins of uncertain age. The ruins are of a stone house, built in a location where materials transport is not easy. The house was known to be of great antiquity in the 19th century. The foundations of the house are cut sandstone blocks that are 2 feet (0.61 m) thick.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

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“Stone House Site” enters the record as archaeological site in Virginia, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stone, House and Site can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Stone, House and Site.
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This entry incorporates text from “Stone House 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.