A Cultural Resources Survey of Selected Timber Harvesting Areas Fort Benning, Alabama and Georgia

An intensive cultural resource management survey was conducted by the Fort Benning Military Reservation in Muscogee and Chattahoochee Counties, Georgia and in Russell County, Alabama by the University of Alabama, Division of Archaeology of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, between the dates of November 8 and December 3, 1988. Additionally, several areas were field checked between August 22 and August 25, 1991. The effort included a resurvey and reevaluation of selected areas within previously surveyed forest compartments that had yielded sites potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. With a view towards establishing a firmer basis for NRHP eligibility of the sites in question, limited testing was implemented in conjunction with an intensive survey of previously unsurveyed areas. A total of 690 hectares (1705 acres), in 13 forest compartments was surveyed. Two previously discovered sites received limited testing with several other previously discovered sites reevaluated by lesser methods. Aside from these previously recorded sites, eight previously unrecorded sites were located. Four of the newly discovered sites are aboriginal, three are aboriginal with an historic component and one is historic only. In addition, there are hundreds of structures plotted on the Fort Benning Site Map that were transposed from early twentieth century maps that have not been recorded in the site files. Of these, seven were located and recorded. Finally, two previously known cemeteries were relocated and recorded. A total of 21 sites were investigated and evaluated during the survey.