Address Restricted, Augusta, Georgia. County/parish: Columbia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000279.
1 contributing site.
Stallings Island is an archeological site with a large shell midden, located in the Savannah River near Augusta, Georgia. The site is the namesake for the Stallings culture of the Late Archaic period and for Stallings fiber-tempered pottery, the oldest known pottery in North America. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961. Stallings Island pottery found in coastal Georgia was formerly called St. Simons pottery, but is now recognized as Stallings Island.
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