Between 8 and 9 August 2018, Brockington and Associates, Inc. (Brockington) conducted an intensive Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of the proposed 20.0-acre Love’s Travel Stop and Country Store project tract in Bryan County, Georgia. Activities associated with the proposed development at the project tract will directly impact soils that will be mechanically graded, cut, and filled. Additional impacts include the movement of heavy machinery in the project tract.
This cultural resources survey was conducted for Love’s Hospitality to determine whether any known historic properties (i.e., sites, buildings, structures, objects, or districts listed on or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places [NRHP]) may be affected by the proposed development project. The investigation was completed in partial fulfilment of guidelines established for a Section 404 of the Clean Water Act permit. These investigations follow standards and guidelines that are in compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (as amended) by personnel qualified under the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards (36 CFR Part 61, Standards and Guidelines for Archaeology and Historic Preservation).
Background research and cultural resources survey were used to identify potentially significant resources within the project’s APE. Background research conducted on Georgia’s Natural, Archaeological, and Historic Resources GIS website (GNAHRGIS) identified no previously recorded archaeological sites or historic resources within the project tract. In addition, no previously recorded archaeological sites and two previously recorded historic architectural resources (both are early twentieth-century bungalows) are located within a one-mile (1.6-kilometer [km]) radius of the project tract. These two historic architectural resources are located well outside the boundaries of the tract; therefore, no previously recorded cultural resources will be affected by the proposed project.
Brockington conducted both an archaeological field survey and an architectural field survey within the area of potential effect (APE) of the project tract. The archaeological field survey involved systematic 30-meter-interval shovel testing and visual reconnaissance. Investigators identified no archaeological sites or isolated finds. The architectural field survey consisted of a visual pedestrian walkover of the project tract and its viewshed. One historic architectural resource, a circa-1920’s bungalow (Resource 1), was identified within the viewshed of the project tract. Resource 1 is recommended not eligible for the NRHP. No additional cultural resources management considerations are warranted for this project. We recommend cultural resources clearance for the proposed Love’s Travel Stop and Country Store project tract.
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