Report Abstracts

This report details the findings of archeological survey and testing of Tract 01-142, a 20.33-acre tract of land adjacent to Andersonville National Historic Site which the National Park Service is considering for disposal as surplus property.

Under a Volunteer Agreement with the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests, the University of Georgia undertook six weeks of excavation followed by two weeks of analysis during the summer, 1983, at Scull Shoals Mound site in Greene County, Georgia.

On March 22, 2007, TRC conducted an archaeological survey of a 10-acre tract in Heard County, Georgia.

The cultural resources survey was conducted on 323 acres of road and timber sales areas around Gab Creek, tributary to Cochran Creek, in eastern Dawson County. This land is within the Chestatee District of the Chattahoochee National Forest.

An archaeological survey was carried out at Hunter Army Airfield in order to determine at what times and in what ways earlier cultures used this area. Nine sites were located. The earliest is a small campsite briefly occupied by Native Americans of the Deptford culture sometime between 500 B.C.

In May of 1975, the Mary Gay House, located in the City of Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Subsequently, its original location at 524 Marshall Street was zoned commercial, and the property was put up for sale.

The Southeastern Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages a number of refuges on which coastal erosion is the major destructive force acting on archeological resources.

Preliminary archaeological investigations, consisting of detailed topographic mapping and limited test excavation, were conducted at the Crooked River Site (9Cam118) over a ten-day period during December 1983 and February 1984.

In 1978, during the restoration of the McCarthy-Pope House in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia, archaeology supplemented preceding research. Four interpretive problems generated by restoration planning were identified by historical and architectural investigations.

Archaeological reconnaissance survey of Tract #1, an area Proposed for Parking-lot construction, revealed no significant cultural resources. It is recommended that construction in this area should proceed.