During the 20th century, three generations of Shelors – Fred L. Shelor, Fred L. Shelor, Jr. and Ben A. Shelor – collected prehistoric artifacts. Interested in the history and environment of rural tidewater and the middle peninsula of Virginia, they developed an understanding of the land used for camps and settlements by early natives. They kept an eye out for objects on the ground that might appear natural, but were not. Projectile points, drills, scrappers, ground stones, arrowheads, bannerstones, axeheads, and more were from woods, fields, and river banks as they hunted and fished. They walked the fields when the earth was turned by farmers. Sometimes they traded with other collectors.This exhibit, sponsored by the Shelor family, represents what they found.
