Relics in Algonquin Park

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Relics in Algonquin Park
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“Earth Yields Indian Relics; Algonquin Park Resident Finds Arrow Hears, Spears and Stones” (by Charles Day, Ledger-Dispatch, Feb. 28, 1936)

“Mother Earth in whose bosom so many secrets are hid, every once in a while generously gives to the newer world some memento of the days when Indians stalked through the wooded forests of Norfolk and skirted the waters of Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in their birch canoes.

Hampton Roads Times Magazine
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Rich with the lore of centuries three, much still lying beneath the blanket of earth, Norfolk has long been a haven for lovers of history and students of what happened when the only dwellings dotting the skyline of the city were the tepees of members of the Algonquin tribe of Indians.
Only recently has further proof of the presence of those early Americans in our midst been unearthed and in that section of the city given the tribal name, Algonquin Park...."