Camp Frank D. Merrill is home to the 5th Ranger Training Battalion, U.S. Army. The ranger camp was established in 1952 and includes 282 acres of the north Georgia mountains in Lumpkin County (Figure 1). Camp Merrill is an active training camp where prospective rangers develop their mountaineering skills. The U.S. Army recently acquired the property containing Camp Merrill, or the Camp Merrill Acquisition Tract, from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). As a result of this acquisition, the identification, management, and protection of any cultural resources located at Camp Merrill are now the responsibility of the Environmental Management Division, Fort Benning Military Reservation. The Environmental Management Division tasked Stella LLC with a complete cultural resources inventory survey of Camp Merrill. This report details the findings of this cultural resources survey.
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