When the Bedford County Airport was being constructed, the site of an Amerindian camp / village was uncovered. Dated to the Late Archaic period, the site was believed to not have been an established village, but rather a temporary campsite. The archaeological dig was conducted by Heberling Associates. The site produced 'features' of everyday activities. They included projectile points and pieces of tools. Over two seasons of digs, roughly 100,000 artifacts were unearthed. More than just the artifacts, there was quite a bit of charcoal remains, which permitted carbon dating of the site. That carbon dating indicated that the site was used from about 4000 B.C. to just before the arrival of the Euro~Americans.
Some of the projectile points found at the dig site were identified as having come from upper New York State, the Ohio Valley and south Maryland and Virginia. Initially, the site was believed to have been only a temporary camp site, but as more artifacts and post holes were uncovered and identified, the site was identified as having been a site that was used full time during the Middle and Later Woodland periods.
