Cultural Resources Survey and Site Evaluations Deerfield Park Development Site, Fulton County, Georgia

R.S. Webb & Associates conducted a Phase I archeological survey and Phase II site evaluation studies at the 222-hectare (550-acre) proposed Deerfield Park Development Site in Fulton County, Georgia in the summer of 1997. In addition, architectural resource surveys were conducted by Mr. John Kissane. These studies were conducted on behalf of Hines Interests, a real estate development firm. Eleven archeological sites, the Morris Cemetery, the location of the original Sarah Webb Gravesite, and ten isolated finds were located during the archeological field survey. All of the sites and five of the isolates suggest late 19th and/or 20th century occupations of the project area. Site types include farmsteads, house sites and artifact scatters. Eight prehistoric occupations were identified from recovery of lithic isolates on three historic sites and five locations. Seven of the isolated finds were assigned to unknown prehistoric time periods, one was given a Woodland temporal assignation. Five historic sites (9FU295, 9FU296, 9FU309, 9FU311, and 9FU313) were recommended as potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), while the remainder of the sites, the isolated finds, and the Sarah Webb Gravesite were all recommended as ineligible for the NRHP. Based on the survey and testing results all of the sites, including the five historic sites recommended potentially eligible, were ruled ineligible by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Georgia State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD). The Morris Cemetery is considered eligible for the NRHP, but since it is within an out-parcel, the project will have no significant adverse effect to this historic property. Architectural survey and evaluations were conducted at nine historic structures/structural complexes within and adjacent to the project area. The study recommended that Structural Complexes FU-NF-55 (Bowen Homestead) and FU-NF-56 (Dodd-Moss House), and the Webb Crossroads Community (FU-NF58, Bagwell Tenant House No. 1; FU-NF-59, Webb General Feeds Store and cotton gin building, and Bagwell Tenant House No, 2) be considered eligible for the NRHP for significance in agriculture, commerce, community planning and development, industry, and architecture. The USACE and the SHPD concurred with the eligibility recommendation on the Bowen Homestead and the Dodd-Moss House. The agencies further determined the Webb Store and the cotton gin building to be individually eligible for the NRHP, but found the Webb Crossroads Community, including Tenant House Nos. 1 and 2 to be ineligible for the NRHP.