The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Clark Hill Reservoir, a man-made lake located in the lower Piedmont region on the Savannah River on the border of Georgia and South Carolina, submerged approximately 78,000 acres beneath its waters. Archaeological fieldwork conducted during the late 1940s and early 1950s under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution's River Basin Survey identified more than 200 sites. Data on these sites, which span the Paleoindian to the Historic period, were gathered by the LAMAR Institute from the Smithsonian Institution and other institutions. Basic site information is presented on these sites, including their location, dimensions, extent of research investigations, and the types of diagnostic materials recovered from each site. Limited excavation was conducted on 18 of the sites by former Smithsonian Institution and University of Georgia personnel (Carl Miller and Joseph Caldwell) and data from their excavations are synthesized. Although a few of these sites are known to present-day archaeologists, such as Fort Charlotte, Lake Springs, and Rembert Mounds, most of the data presented herein have never been published. After a nearly 50 year hiatus, the Clark Hill data are now in print.
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