In July 2019, Trileaf Corporation (Trileaf) performed a cultural resource inventory survey for a proposed self-support lattice tower telecommunication facility located in Jefferson County, Louisville, Georgia (Latitude: 33° 04’ 17.74” Longitude: -82° 34’ 59.10”). The project location is within a clear-cut pine plantation. Verizon Wireless proposes the construction of a new self-support lattice cell tower with a total height of 264 feet (80.5 meters). The new tower and associated equipment will be situated within a proposed approximate 100 x 100-foot (30.5 x 30.5 meter) cell tower lease area. A proposed approximate 30 x 170-foot (9.1 x 51.8 meter) access and utility easement will travel generally northeast away from the lease area to Hardeman Road North. An additional proposed approximate 30 x 227-foot (9.1 x 69.2 meter) utility easement will extend northwest to the right of way of Highway 88. Total acreage of the new construction area is approximately 0.50 acres (0.20 Hectares). Project Archaeologist Colin Bean, M.A., 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.
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