Parker’s Ferry Site
An attempt was made to locate this settlement archaeologically with some degree of success. On the edge of a fluvial terrace adjacent to the low swamps at the mouth of the Meherrin River, there is an extensive archaeological site designated the “Parker’s Ferry site’ and recorded in the files of the Laboratory of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina as site Hf 1 and Hfv2. This site yields materials assignable to a number different time periods recognizable in the archaeological sequence in the region; however, the mostextensive occupation was in the historic period and the remains are assignable to the Meherrin with fair certainty. Trade items of European manufacture were relatively frequent, including kaolin pipe fragments and glass bottles as well as gun flints. For a description of these materials see Binford (1964:269-70, 402-7).