Brockington and Associates, Inc. (Brockington) completed a Cultural Resources Overview, including a site reconnaissance visit and background literature review, for previously identified cultural resources within and near the Subject Property for the proposed undertaking Bryan County Industrial Park Megasite located in Bryan County, Georgia (Figures 1 and 2). The Phase 1 (1340 acres) and Phase 2 (936 acres) tracts are subsets of a larger 3020-acre parcel bounded to the northeast by Interstate-16 and to the southwest by Black Creek. It is bounded to the southeast and northwest by the Central of Georgia Railroad/Cuyler Road, and U.S. 280 and the Black Creek neighborhood, respectively. Tar City Road passes through the site and generally delimits the Phase 1 and 2 parcels. The area is characterized by the large sand flats and interior, non-linear wet land representing former sea levels within the Barrier Island sequence of the Coastal Plain Physiographic province.
This review is for due diligence informational purposes only and does not constitute a full Phase I cultural resources survey and inventory of the Subject Property. This review consisted of an examination of archaeological site forms and architectural resource information sheets from previous surveys and other undertakings within one mi (1 .3 km) of the project tract via records that are currently maintained by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division (HPD) in Atlanta, and the Georgia Archaeological Site files (GASF) at the University of Georgia, in Athens. Both datasets are also available through an online querying system; the Georgia Natural, Archaeological, and Historic Resources Geographic Information System (NAHRGIS). The physical files at GASF were also checked for evidence of prior cultural resource investigations within the project tract. This was followed by a site visit to the Subject Property on February 25, 2015, to assess the area for the potential for previously undocumented cultural resources.
Additionally, a records search was made for documents pertaining to previously known, reported, and/ or National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nominated resources within the search radius of the project tract. An assessment was also made based on previous regional surveys and nearby resources as to the potential for the project tract to produce as yet unidentified archaeological or historic architectural resources, or for the undertaking to have an effect on those not yet identified outside of the project tract.
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