Archival Research and Archaeological Monitoring of Phase III Construction at the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Athens

This document summarizes archival research and archeological monitoring for the Phase III construction of the Terry College of Business Learning Community, located in the northwest quadrant of the intersection of Lumpkin and Baxter Streets. Phase II of the Terry College of Business Learning Center was completed in the fall of 2017 and consisted mainly of a 4000 square foot classroom building. Phase III construction was to quickly follow, in the fall of 2017, and would add two wings south of the Phase II building, with a quad between the two wings and necessary

installation and relocation of drainage and utility lines. The area of potential effect for Phase III construction extended from the south edge of the Phase II building to Baxter Street, between Lumpkin and Hull Streets (Figure 1). Dustin Hodges of Turner Construction was in charge of the construction project and supervised the many subcontractors performing the work. Our monitoring of construction took place mainly in October and November 2017.  Ancillary to and preceding the Phase III construction project described above was the installation of the Terry College Phase III Duct Bank, a large underground electrical duct bank that extends southward from a switch gear vault at the Northwest Precinct Central Utility Plant on South Newton Street, across Baxter Street to a subterranean transformer box immediately southwest of Lipscomb Hall (Figure 1). Much of this line closely parallels Tanyard Branch and all of it is west and southwest of the Phase III construction site. The installation and our archeological monitoring of the duct bank took place in July of 2017. For both the construction site and duct bank it was decided that archival research would be conducted prior to any earth moving and if it seemed possible that potentially significant archeological sites would be present, then archeological testing would precede the earth moving. Archival research and a cursory inspection of both project areas led us to conclude that there was a low probability of significant intact archeological deposits occurring at either site. Thus, the bulk of the fieldwork consisted of monitoring during construction.