Cultural Resources Survey of Selected (Fy-90) Timber Harvesting Areas, Fort Benning, Alabama and Georgia

This report details the results of a cultural resource survey of 6,345 ac (2,569 ha) on 27 forest compartments of the United States Army Infantry Training Base at Fort Benning, Georgia and Alabama. The project area includes portions of Muscogee and Chattahoochee Counties, Georgia and Russell County, Alabama, and it is entirely within the Chattahoochee River watershed in the Fall Line Hills physiographic province. The goal of this project was to locate cultural resources within areas of proposed timber harvesting. Portions of these compartments not scheduled for timber harvesting also were surveyed as part of an ongoing inventory of cultural resources on Fort Benning. The work was conducted by Brockington and Associates, Inc. under subcontract to Gulf Engineers and Consultants, Inc. for the United States Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District. This survey examined 151 cultural resources including eight previously recorded sites, 97 new archeological sites, and 46 isolated artifact finds. Components ranging from Early Archaic to mid-twentieth century were located. Twenty sites, eligible or potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, were identified, and protection of these important resources is recommended. Two of the sites (lRu129 and lRu130) are located within areas of proposed timber harvesting on Compartment Yankee 1. It is recommended that harvesting plans be altered in these two areas to protect these important sites. It is recommended that no further management consideration is necessary for sites assessed as not eligible for the National Register or for isolated finds.