Near Boissevain in rural Tazewell County, Virginia, this archaeological site spans both Native American and colonial history. Long before James Moore established his homestead there in 1772, it had been a palisaded Native village from the Late Woodland period. The place is also tied to the region’s earliest settlement, as Moore was an early settler and militia captain. In 1786, a Shawnee party killed him at the site and took his family prisoner, linking the homestead directly to the violence and instability that marked the frontier era.