A Cultural Resource Assessment of A Tract South of Georgetown, Quitman County, Georgia

On February 6, 1982, Frank T. Schnell conducted a cultural resource assessment of a tract of land located in Quitman County, Georgia. This tract is located on the eastern bank of the Walter F. George Lake (Lake Eufaula), approximately 8000 feet (1500 meters) south of Georgetown, Georgia. The Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates for the center of the study area are: Zone 16R, Easting 678,800 and Northing 3,526,900. The elevation of the study area is approximately 195 feet (59 meters) above mean sea level. The property to the immediate east of the tract is being subdivided as "Winding Way Estates." The developers of this subdivision propose to extend a road, which they have constructed to the edge of federal property, to the lake shoreline, and to construct a boat launching ramp. The access road extension should be 350 feet (105 meters) or less. The study area was considered to be a rectangle 50 meters wide and 110 meters long, projected from the end of the new access road. An intensive surface reconnaissance yielded two plain grit tempered Mississippian sherds on recently deposited 2 sand at the lakeshore. These sherds were out of context and had been washed to this location from the west, probably from the Gary's Fish Pond Site (9Qu1), which is now submerged beneath the waters of the lake approximately 1500 feet (450 meters) to the southwest. This occurrence is therefore not considered significant. No surface features or structures of significance were noted in, or directly adjacent to, the study area. Eleven subsurface tests were excavated to precultural substrata in order to insure that there were no buried cultural resources of significance in the study area. No significant cultural resources were encountered. There were no cultural resources which would qualify for the National Register of Historic Places encountered anywhere within, or directly adjacent to the study area. No mitigative action for the preservation of cultural resources is required within this study area. All notes, maps, and photographs generated during this survey are being curated at the Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Inc., 1251 Wynnton Road, Columbus, Georgia, 31906.