Cultural Resources Survey of the ATL5G_ATHN122 Telecommunication Project, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia Trileaf Project #706807

In August 2022, Trileaf Corporation (Trileaf) performed a cultural resource inventory survey for a proposed pole communications tower located in Clarke County, Athens, Georgia Latitude: 36° 57’ 10.47” N, Longitude: 82° 22’ 34.47” W. The project location is located within a disturbed right-of-way.

Verizon Wireless proposes to install a 35-foot communications structure with pole mounted communications and associated equipment mounted at a top height of 42 feet. The proposed pole and hand hole will be located with a right-of-way adjacent to Baldwin Street.

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 precontact and historical period cultural resources that might be present within the project area.

The field survey of the project area, which included a 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 (500-foot radius). However, four (4) state resources were identified within the proposed project’s Visual APE (500-foot radius).

Based on these findings, Trileaf recommends No Historic Properties in the APE-DE and No Adverse Effect to Historic Properties within 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.