Wolf Creek Indian Village & Museum

During the construction of Interstate 77, plans were made to re-channel Wolf Creek to make room for the Bastian, Virginia exit. During this process local resident Wayne Richardson contacted the then State Archeologist Howard MacCord about his suspicions of an Indian village site that would be disturbed by the construction of the interstate.

In May 1970, Howard MacCord led the excavation of the site. The construction of the interstate was stopped for a very brief time to complete the dig. It was the first official state recognized archeology site (State # 44BD1) in Bland County and named for Brown Johnston who owned the farm the site was located on.  The site gives a glimpse of a story of a people and their way of life long ago.

In 1992, the community never forgot the memory of a village that had once stood in Bland County. Under the direction of George Schaeffer and members of the Bland County Historical Society a plan was implemented to create a museum dedicated to the history of the first Native American people who called the mountains of Bland County home.