The Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests have prepared a timber sale project in three compartments on the Oconee Ranger District in Putnam County, in the vicinity of Rock Eagle and the town of Eatonton, west of State Highway 441. Three previously-recorded, ‘potentially eligible' sites located within or near the boundary of sale units were revisited; four more such sites were revisited although they happen to fall outside sale units (sale units changed throughout the course of this project). The location of one previously noted but not recorded (NBNR) site—a cemetery--was revisited, but no cemetery could be found at that location. Ninety of the sale's 668 acres—the Area of Potential Effect (APE), the sale units themselves--were surveyed for this project, with the remainder having been previously surveyed to standard. Six new sites were recorded and evaluated against National Register of Historic Places criteria. Please see Table 1 below. Site visits to the seven previously recorded sites provided an opportunity for condition assessments, which in some cases provided data not previously known. For this project, each of these seven sites was flagged for avoidance. The six newly recorded sites were evaluated as not eligible to the National Register and no further work is necessary. Fieldwork was conducted over nine days in January, February, and March 2012 by the District Archaeologist, occasionally assisted by a student timber trainee. The project has been determined no effect for historic properties according to implementing regulation 36 CFR 800.4(d)(1).
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