List of Carroll County Sites

No formal extensive archaeological survey has ever been made of Carroll County, Georgia. It is obvious, however from the activities of amateur collectors and of a limited highway salvage survey that the archaeological potential of the county is substantial, especially along the Chattahooche and Little Tallapoosa Rivers. The range in types of sites is extensive, including small single component locations, steatite quarries, bluff shelters, mounds and stratified habitation sites. Examination of several artifact collections also indicated a long span of occupancy, ranging from the Early Archaic Period to that of the Historic Creek. The following list of Carroll County sites includes those on which some data is currently available. The list is in no way comprehensive of the total number of sites within the County, nor is the data cited necessarily always up to date. Lack of sufficient time prevented first hand reexamination of most of the locations. Data for the sites listed came from three principal sources. The first was the written results of the archaeological survey of the proposed Interstate 20 route across northern Carroll County by John H. House, Field Archaeologist for the Georgia Historical Commission. Four sites in the list are cited from this survey. The second source was the records and collections of John Whatley, an amateur collector from Carrollton. Ten of Whatley's sites are cited in Robert Wauchope's Archaeologica1 Survey of Northern Georgia, (Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology, No. 21, 1966), and are included in the list with whatever additional data was available. Also used was a copy of the Whatley Collection catalog, (now in storage with the Georgia Historical Commission) and a large scale county map with notations by Whatley on site locations. The majority of sites on the map had no additional accompanying data, hence they are merely quoted in the latter part of the list with a brief note on their general location. The third source of information came from the recent activities of several students and faculty members of West Georgia College, especially Dr. Y. Lynn Holmes of the History Department. Four sites in the list are included from this source.