Our survey was conducted on November 16, 2014 by Ron Schoettmer. Schoettmer conducted the survey of the transmission line itself in July, 2014, and so was very familiar with the area and the potential for cultural resources. He bad the aerial photo project maps that you placed on the GTC FTP site on October 27 (Sheets 9 and 11, depicted herein as Figures l and 2), which show four required access roads as yellow dashed lines. Two of these are within the corridor originally surveyed, and so only two required survey now. We transcribed the areas to be surveyed, that is, the proposed access roads onto an enlarged copy of the USGS topographic map of the area (Boston quad). Schoettmer bad both maps with him to conduct the survey.
The proposed access road on Sheet 9 (Figure 1) departs Eason Crossing Road on an existing woods road (Figure 3), and after about 45 rn turns to the southwest to follow a faint woods road (or skidder trail) for about 100 m through thinned pine woods (Figure 4). It should be noted that the map shown in Figure I shows the access road paralleling Eason Crossing Road about 60 m to the northwest, but the centerline stakes in the field were about 45 to 50 m to the northwest. From the original survey of the transmission line in August of 2014, Schoettmer knew there was a historic period house site where the woods road departs from Eason Crossing Road, and when he returned in November, 2014 for this survey, he recorded the house site as Site 9TH106 (Figure 5).
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