Mmmm Doggie...... we'll probably be seeing a video soon of Mudslide doin' Mulberry Is.
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Scratching the surface
Mulberry Island on Fort Eustis is dense with 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century artifacts
BY MARK ST. JOHN ERICKSON
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December 13, 2006
Reach down into the sweet, rich soil that covers most of Mulberry Island and you're liable to find much more than roots and worms.
Prehistoric stone arrowheads and scrapers lie just below the surface, left behind by a Native American culture that reaches back 12,000 years. Broken clay tobacco pipes lurk here, too, cast off by English indentured servants during the days of John Rolfe and Pocahontas.
Civil War buttons add to this subterranean history, describing a time when the fate of the Confederacy depended upon the island's earthen defenses. Then there are the small yet provocative fragments of everyday life left behind by the freed black slaves who swarmed here when the war ended.
So lush and numerous are the buried clues that finding and unearthing them all would be impossible. . . . . . .
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