Excavations
prior to residential development of the large Stonegate
property on West Braddock Road brought to light evidence
of Native American tool manufacturing dating from 900 B.C.
to 200 A.D., and of the nineteenth-century Dove home. Financed
by developers Eakin/Youngentob Associates, Inc., International
Archaeological Consultants, Inc. also unearthed two projectile
points dating to approximately 7500 years ago. A creek side
plot containing additional prehistoric lithics has been
dedicated as the first archaeological preserve in Alexandria.