In June 2021, Trileaf Corporation (Trileaf) performed a cultural resource inventory survey for a proposed self-support lattice communications tower located in Hancock County, Sparta, Georgia Latitude: 33° 14’ 23.00” N, Longitude: 82° 56’ 39.16” W. The project location is located within wooded land.
Verizon Wireless proposes to construct a 195-foot monopole communications tower with an overall height of 199 feet and associated equipment in a 60-foot by 60-foot fenced compound within a 100-foot by 100- foot (10,000-square-foot) lease area. The project includes an access/utility easement, measuring 30 feet wide, containing a 12-foot gravel drive, extending approximately 386 feet generally southwest, then west away from the lease area towards Cody Johnson Road. The proposed access/utility easement and proposed tower compound lease area are located within wooded land.
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.
The field survey of the project area, which included a pedestrian survey, shovel testing, and visual inspection, yielded no evidence for the presence of archaeological or architectural properties within the Direct APE for the current project. Additionally, no NRHP-listed or eligible properties were identified within the proposed project’s Direct or Visual APE (0.50-mile radius).
Based on these findings, Trileaf recommends No Historic Properties in both the APE-DE and the APE-VE. 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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