The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) wishes to replace two aging bridges in southern Fulton County, Enon Road over Camp Creek and Cochran Mill Road over Little Pea Creek (Figure 1). Both are on small, two-laned county roads that cross small creeks. The bridges will be replaced in place with traffic detoured on other existing roads. All construction will take place within existing disturbed right -of-way. Southeastern Archeological Services (SAS) conducted an intensive archeological survey of the two bridge projects to ensure compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. This act stipulates that federal agencies, in this case the Federal Highway Administration, take into account potential adverse effects of an undertaking to significant cultural resources. The goals of the survey were to locate, delineate, describe and evaluate, in terms of eligibility to the National Register, archeological sites in the areas of potential effect for the three projects. The field survey was conducted on May 9, 2001 by Principal Investigator Tom Gresham.
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