An intensive archeological survey was conducted of a proposed 3.9 km long bypass around the south side of the town of Dawsonville. About one third of the project involves widening an existing two land road and the remainder involves construction of a two land road on wooded new location. Six archeological sites and one artifact occurrence were recorded. Four of the sites contain sparse amounts of prehistoric lithic material and two of these also contain historic period artifacts. One prehistoric site yielded an Early Archaic, Big Sandy projectile point. A fifth site consisted of the heavily disturbed remains of a late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century house site and the sixth site is a cluster of seven, historic-period rock piles. One of dozens of gold mining operations occurred near the project area, and a set of small ditches near the project may be associated with this late nineteenth century mining. However, the mining and ditches did not occur in the project area and were not recorded as sites. Due to the highly disturbed nature of five of the sites and the low research potential at each, we recommend all six sites as ineligible to the National Register of Historic Places. Construction of the proposed bypass will not adversely affect any significant archeological sites.
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