Opatrny Village Site

Opatrny Village Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Overview of the site
Location	U.S. Route 40 north of the Belmont Hills Country Club[1]
Nearest city	St. Clairsville, Ohio
Coordinates	40°4′29″N 80°56′36″W / 40.07472°N 80.94333°WCoordinates: 40°4′29″N 80°56′36″W / 40.07472°N 80.94333°W
Area	50 acres (20 ha)
NRHP Reference #	75001323[2]
Added to NRHP	May 21, 1975

The Opatrny Village Site is an ancient village site dating from AD 1000-1600. The site was inhabited by the Monongahela culture and is a contemporary with the Fort Ancient cultural way of life. The property was placed on the National Register on 1975-05-21.

The extent of the site has not been fully determined as the artifacts lie in occupational debris over 1.5 feet thick. The site has been used as a pasture and remains largely intact. The property was placed to protect the integrity of the site from a highway project.

Around 1980, an extensive excavation was carried out at Opatrny; the information that it yielded was seen as highly significant in understanding the ways that local cultures changed and developed their surrounding terrain.^{[3]:367–368} Despite its location along U.S. Route 40, the village remains less disturbed by modern development than most surrounding terrain.^[1]

References

1. Gray and Pape. National Road/U.S. 40 Historic Properties Inventory in Ohio, Vol. 1. Columbus: Ohio Department of Transportation, 1998-07-02, 65.
2. Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
3. Myers, Thomas P., ed. "Current Research. American Antiquity 45 (1980): 355-376.

Further reading

• Ohio Historical Society, Division of Archeology; The Opatrny Village Site; Ohio Historical Society; Columbus, Ohio 1974
• "Radiocarbon Information from Eastern Ohio and a Summary of the Late Prehistoric Occupation at the Opatrny Village Site". Ohio Archaeologist 29.2 (1979): 40-41.

External links

• Pottery and diagram of the site