Report Abstracts

In 2009, the Department of the Army at Fort Benning Military Reservation requested a technical proposal for the archaeological mitigation (Phase III) of three sites in Chattahoochee County, Georgia: 9CE578, 9CE608, and 9CE876.

Southern Research, Historic Preservation Consultants, Inc. conducted two archaeological data recovery excavations at the Leake site between 2004 and 2006.

Under a continuing services contract with the U.S. Army Infantry Center, Directorate of Public Works, Environmental Division, Fort Benning Military Reservation, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. (PCI) conducted a series of Phase III archaeological mitigations at six sites within the reservation.

Scotch Presbyterians came to Oglethorpe's new colony of Georgia in 1735 and established New Inverness at the mouth of the Altamaha River. This settlement eventually became the city of Darien, which flourished as a small port for the shipment of native products such as turpentine and shingles.

On October 18-19, 2001, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. (PCI) of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, under contract with Williams Gas Pipelines-Transco, Houston, Texas, performed a cultural resource survey for one proposed pipeyard associated with the Momentum Expansion Project.

None Present.

An Archaeological investigation of the Andersonville National Historic Site, Sumter and Macon Counties, Georgia, was initiated October 8, 1973 and continued until October 19, 1973 under the field direction of Lewis H. Larson, Jr. (Professor of Anthropology, West Georgia College).

To date, no archaeological resources of National Register significance have been located within the project corridor. Several areas, however, were inaccessible at the time of the intensive survey and have not yet been investigated.

Between March and October of 2006, R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc., performed a Phase I cultural resources field survey for the Elba Express Pipeline Project, a proposed 305.8 km (190.0 mi) long,42-inch and 36-inch outside diameter natural gas pipeline.

The existing State Route (SR) 18 bridge over the CSX Railroad consists of two 12-foot travel lanes (one in each direction) and 2-foot paved shoulders. This bridge is 150 feet long by 24 feet wide with a 5-foot wide concrete sidewalk on the north side.