Resource Inventory II Study Idle Hour Point Access Facility Bartletts Ferry Hydroelectric Project, Harris County, Georgia

This Resource Inventory II study project was carried out in advance of proposed construction of a public access facility at Idle Hour Point, on the Bartletts Ferry Reservoir, Harris County, Georgia. The purpose of the study was to identify and assess any archaeological or historic cultural resources located on the access facility tract. The study tract consists of approximately four acres, situated on a ridge nose overlooking the Chattahoochee River valley (now Bartletts Ferry Reservoir). The project area lies within the Lower Cultural Resource Management Unit, as defined by Crook (1986), and includes Georgia Study Units 3, 9, 15, 21, 27, and 33.Georgia Study Unit (Crook 1986:16) designations are defined for major culture periods (e.g., Paleo-Indian) for each broad environmental zone. The Study Units involved here are thus all those concerned with the Piedmont environmental zone. Crook (1986) has provided summary cultural context statements for Georgia resource management projects; these have been reproduced in Appendix I of this report to serve as a general cultural context for the present study. More detailed cultural context statements and research questions (operating plans) are being developed for the State of Georgia (cf. Hally and Rudolph 1986); the findings of this investigation, however, would not appear to require more detailed cultural context presentation than that provided by Appendix I. Intensive pedestrian survey including close-interval shovel cuts and screened shovel tests, was carried out at the tract. one Isolated Find was recorded, but no cultural properties were located. It is recommended that no further consideration of cultural resources is necessary for the proposed undertaking. This report contains several sections. The chapter below briefly discusses the environmental context of the project area. Chapter III describes the methods employed in the study and presents the results of the investigation. Appendix I is a discussion of the cultural context of the region, taken from Crook (1986), and Appendix II contains the resume of the Principal investigator.