The bridge carrying US Highway 129/ State Route 11 over Ivy Log Creek in Union County, Georgia, is being replaced. At the highway Ivy Log Creek is within Lake Nottely, a TVA lake built in the early 1940s. An archeological survey conducted in 2009 encountered no archeological sites within the area of potential effect for the bridge replacement project. Late in the planning and design phase of the project an apparent cultural feature, a low rock retaining wall, was reported on the south bank of Ivy Log Creek, within the APE. Southeastern Archeological Services conducted archival research and examined this feature in September, 2011. We determined that the feature was an abutment to an older bridge that was superceded by the present 1942 bridge. This report documents this feature, which has been assigned site number 9UN625. We recommend that bridge abutment 9UN625 is not eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places because it lacks integrity and fails to meet any of the four eligibility criteria. We recommend that the project be allowed to proceed.
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