On June 26-30, 1980 an archaeological survey was conducted on a 242 acre area that will be affected by the expansion and modification of an existing sewage treatment facility located approximately two miles south of the town of Baxley, Georgia. The project is being planned for the town by Hussey, Gay and Bell, Inc., Consulting engineers of Savannah, Georgia, and it was at the request of the firm Hussey, Gay and Bell that this survey was conducted. Dense vegetation obscured the ground surface over the entire building site, and a research plan employing subsurface testing was selected as the most practicable survey method. This subsurface testing found no evidence of any prehistoric or historic archaeological sites. A pedestrian survey and visual examination of existing farm lanes within the proposed building site; however, did find evidence of a small late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century farmstead.
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