Sixteen archaeological sites on the Future Development Tract of the Fort Howard Paper Company Plant site in Effingham County, Georgia were tested. Methods utilized included shovel tests to determine site boundaries, test units to investigate areas of concentrated occupation to determine if intact cultural features were present, and, in the case of some historic sites, metal detector surveys to help define site boundaries and to locate structural remains. Eleven historic sites, or portions of sites, appear to meet the criteria for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Seven of these sites were eighteenth century colonial Salzburger farmsteads and four were nineteenth century farmsteads. These sites produced intact cultural features and all represented relatively undisturbed, single component historic occupations. Prehistoric sites on the tract were found to be badly disturbed. All sites were multiple component, and the components were mixed by natural agents. None of these sites appear to meet the criteria for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Components present on the tract included possible Paleoindian; Early and Late Archaic; Early, Middle, and Late Woodland; and Mississippian.
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