On November 9, 11, 12, and 13, 1981 a cultural resource assessment in the vicinity of the City of Lumpkin, Georgia was conducted by Frank T. Schnell, Principal Investigator and R. Donald Gordy, Field Investigator. Five sections of a proposed sanitary sewer system are planned with assistance from FmHA. Two of these (Sections 1 and 2, see Figure 2) are under existing road rights-of-way which have been disturbed to the extent that they are excluded from this survey. Section 3 extends approximately 600 feet (180 meters) from Georgia highway 27 to Patterson Drive, Section 4 extends approximately 3300 feet (1000 meters) from Liberty Street to another proposed pipeline southeast of the Town of Westville, and Section 5 extends approximately 8200 feet (2500 meters) from Georgia highway 27 to the proposed treatment plant site near the confluence of Wimberly Mill Branch with Hodchodkee Creek.
After a thorough reconnaissance of these three sections three prehistoric sites were located along Section 5. A series of shovel tests were then excavated along these three lines in order to determine whether there were any buried cultural remains for which there was no evidence on the surface. No cultural remains were encountered in any of the 40 shovel tests excavated and the three surface scatter sites located are no considered eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. No mitigative actions are recommended.
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