In August 2019, Trileaf Corporation (Trileaf) performed a cultural resource inventory survey for a proposed monopole tower telecommunication facility located in Cobb County, Acworth, Georgia (Latitude: 34° 04’ 18.738” Longitude: -84° 40’ 58.052”). The project location is located within a gravel parking lot.
Verizon Wireless proposes the construction of a new monopole cell tower with a total height of 195 feet (59.4 meters). The new tower and associated equipment will be situated within a proposed approximate 40 x 40-foot (1,600-square feet) cell tower lease area. A proposed approximate 30 x 450-foot (9.1 x 137.2 meter) access and utility easement will travel generally west, southwest, then west again to connect to Lake Acworth Drive. Total acreage of the new construction area is approximately 0.35 acres (0.14 Hectares).
Senior Project Archaeologist Zach Horne, M.A., RPA, under the direction of Trileaf, performed this survey in response to the planned use of the above-described parcel and the potential impacts that such use might represent to archaeological and architectural cultural resources. The Phase I cultural resource survey was designed to discover all prehistoric and historical period cultural resources that might be present within the project area.
The field survey of the project area, which included a pedestrian survey, and visual inspection, found no evidence for the presence of archaeological or architectural properties in relation to the current project area’s Direct APE. Additionally, no National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-eligible or listed properties were identified within the project areas Direct APE. Based on a map and survey form search using the resources of the Georgia State Historic Preservation Office including topographical maps and their GNAHRGIS GIS platform, inspections of the Georgia Archaeological Site Files (GASF 2019), as well as the resources of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) conducted by Zach Horne, Senior Project Archaeologist of the Trileaf Corporation and Kevin McHugh, CEO of Architectural Research LLC, identified four (4) NRHP-listed historical resources, 131 GNAGRGIS identified historical resources, as well as three (3) field identified NRHP-eligible MRAs (Multiple Resource Areas/MRA: City of Acworth Historic Village Core West, MRA: City of Acworth Historic Village Core East, and MRA: Wood Street Extension to Collins Avenue Historic District) located within the ½-mile visual APE, 13 archaeological sites, and 15 archaeological surveys previously identified within Trileaf Corporation’s 1-mile background research radius. Due to distance, and intervening buildings and vegetation, the proposed project will have no adverse effect on the character-defining features of the NRHP-listed and NRHP-eligible properties.
Based on these findings, Trileaf recommends No Historic Properties in the Direct APE and No Adverse Effect to Historic Properties within the ½ -mile Visual APE. It is therefore recommended that project clearance be granted with no further investigation or evaluation of the project area relative to those resources.
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