From August through October 1996, a cultural resources survey was conducted on approximately 532 acres of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Union and Towns Counties, Georgia. The survey was conducted prior to salvage and green stem timber harvesting and road construction activities in portions of Compartments 348, 410, 417, 503, 504, 505, 506, 509 and 520 for the five projects listed above. Sixteen new archaeological sites were identified. Four sites are considered potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places pending further investigation. Of the sites on the National Forest, five are historic house places, one is a portable sawmill site, and one is a metal can dump. Three of those are potentially eligible for the National Register, and will be protected by avoidance, and there should be no effect on them. None of the five prehistoric sites on the National Forest were to be protected. The prehistoric Mississippian site on TVA is recommended for protection, but the two house sites on the Lake are not eligible for the Register.
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