A cultural resource survey was conducted along the proposed Weed/Ready Street effluent line corridor in downtown St. Marys, Georgia. The purpose of the survey was to determine whether the property contained resources that might be eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Archaeological testing located three early nineteenth-century activity areas along the corridor. Two were adjacent to sites already located by earlier research (the Frohock House Site 9CM125 and the Captain Ed Stone House Site 9CM123), and were thus considered extensions of those sites. The third area was determined to be the edge of a site designated in this report as the Stotesbury Site 9CM232. The proposed three-meter-wide effluent line corridor passes along the very edge of all three recorded sites. Materials recovered from archaeological testing within the corridor revealed that none of the site portions affected (nor any of the non-site areas of the corridor) would lose significant cultural information upon impact by the construction of the effluent line.
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