Archeological Site 38CK1

National Register Listing

Street Address:

Address Restricted (Cherokee County)

Alternate Name:

Upton Site

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817711004

Description and Narrative:

The soapstone quarries located in Spartanburg and Cherokee counties are distinct, well preserved examples of a once numerous, but now rapidly vanishing, specialized procurement site. Here occurs an extensive zone of soapstone deposits from which, primarily during the prehistoric, Late Archaic Period (3000 BC – 500 BC), soapstone was procured. The narrow zone of lenticular soapstone deposits is approximately 8 km. in length. Soapstone Quarry Site 38CK1 consists of a series of clusterings of large soapstone boulders exhibiting extensive quarrying activity, surrounded by a scatter of worked and unworked pieces. The site is divided into two major areas extending laterally along the crest of two parallel ridges. The quarry exhibits both historic and prehistoric utilization. Listed in the National Register December 10, 1980.

Level of Significance:

National

Area of Significance:

Archeology: Prehistoric

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

December 10 1980

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