In July 2021, Trileaf Corporation (Trileaf) performed a cultural resource inventory survey for a proposed self-support lattice communications tower located in Jenkins County, Millen, Georgia Latitude: 32° 49’ 12.49” N, Longitude: 82° 02’ 33.74” W. The project location is located within an agricultural field. Our client proposes to construct a 325-foot guyed communications tower, with an overall height of 350 feet including all appurtenances, and associated equipment within a 50-foot by 50-foot fenced compound within a 100-foot by 100-foot (10,000-square-foot) lease area. The project includes a 12-foot-wide gravel drive within a 30-foot-wide access/utility easement, which extends approximately 150 feet north-northeast from the lease area to Highway 17. Three (3) 30-foot-wide guy wire easements are proposed to extend approximately 220 feet northwest, east-northeast, and south-southwest from the lease area. Project Archaeologist Colin Bean, M.A., under the direction of Trileaf, performed this survey in response to the planned use of the above-described parcel and the potential impacts that such use might represent to archaeological and architectural cultural resources. The Phase I cultural resource survey was designed to discover all prehistoric and historical period cultural resources that might be present within the project area.
The field survey of the project area, which included a pedestrian survey, shovel testing, and visual inspection, yielded no evidence for the presence of archaeological or architectural properties within the Direct APE for the current project. Additionally, no NRHP-listed or eligible properties were identified within the proposed project’s Direct or Visual APE (0.75-mile radius). Based on these findings, Trileaf recommends No Historic Properties in both the APE-DE and the APE-VE. It is therefore recommended that project clearance be granted with no further investigation or evaluation of the project area relative to those resources.
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