Clovis Point (Historical Marker)

Here follows the inscription written on this trailside historical marker:

Clovis Point
An archeological investigation was conducted in 2007 and 2008 to find and protect the cemetery's remaining graves. City archaeologists discovered an American Indian site in this area with a broken quartzite fragment fro a 13,000-year-old spear point—the oldest American Indian artifact found in Alexandria to date.

American Indians once traversed this area in small bands hunting game. They gathered cobbles from Great Hunting Creek just south of here and brought them up to this hill to make stone spear points and other tools. The Clovis point broke during manufacture and was discarded by the toolmaker. Thousands of other stone artifacts show that Native peoples visited this place periodically for more than 12,000 years.