A cultural resources survey was conducted on April 19, 1995, by Archaeologist Jack T. Wynn on a 60-plus acre tract in Catoosa County, Georgia. The land was given to the county for limited development as the Elsie Holmes Conservation Education Facility. This development would be funded by private, county, state, and federal funds, and thus is covered by the National Historic preservation Act requirement to consider the cultural resources of the area before construction. Park development will include a parking lot, pavilion for instruction, and hand-built trails. The location is on a high, narrow, and very stony ridge above a horseshoe bend of the Chickamauga River, three miles north of the county seat of Ringgold, Georgia. Background search, shovel tests and visual examination were made on the ridge top, slopes, and narrow flood plains. The survey showed no cultural resources on the land which were eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Thus there will be no effect on the cultural resources of the county or the state by the proposed development.
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