Fort Stewart 8 and 10: An Archeological Survey of Natural Resource Management Units A9.1, A12.1, A12.2, B7.2, B7.3, E6.3, F7.2, and F17.3, Fort Stewart, Evans and Liberty Counties, Georgia

This study represents an intensive archaeological survey of 9 areas in Evans and Liberty counties. The survey areas are Natural Resource Management Units A9.1, A12.1, A12.2, B7.2, B7.3, E6.3, E8.3, F7.2 and F 17.3. Survey tracts NRMU A9.1(147.19 ha), A 12.1 (209.40 ha), A 12.2 (200.89 ha), B7.2 (13 5.26 ha), B7.3 (110.15 ha), E6.3 (89.23 ha), E8.3 (313.52 ha), and F17.3 (196.71 ha) are located in Liberty County. Survey tract NRMU F7.2 (244.59 ha) is located in Evans County. This work is being done in order to comply with the National Historic Preservation Act (Public Law 89-665, as amended by Public Law 96-515), Guidelines for Federal Agency Responsibilities, under Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, Army Regulation AR 420-40, and 36CFR800 (Protection of Historic and Cultural Properties). The project is administered for the United States Army by the National Park Service (NPS), Southeast Regional Office. The scope of work specified that the entire project area be surveyed as high probability using transects and shovel tests spaced at 30 m intervals, or low probability using transects spaced at 30 m and shovel tests spaced at 50 m intervals. The primary purpose of this investigation is to identify and assess the archaeological remains present at Fort Stewart for the National Register of Historic Places. There were also a number of secondary goals which included: * exploring the effectiveness of the current Fort Stewart predictive model and examining prehistoric and historic patterns of land use, location, and site intensity, * exploring site function/duration based on artifact content; and * better understanding the regional culture history. These investigations incorporated a review of previously reported site files located at the office of the base archaeologist. Previously recorded sites were located in survey tract NRMU Al 2.2 (9LI259), survey tract NRMU B7.2 (9LI315, 9LI318, 9LI375), and NRMU E8.3 (9LI338). In addition, the base's Historic Preservation Plan was consulted regarding sites or structures on the National Register of Historic Places within the nine survey areas. Twenty-two archaeological sites and 18 isolated occurrences (which are also assigned site numbers) were identified during the survey. One site and two isolated sites were located in NRMU A9. 1. Two sites and an isolated site were located in NRMU A12.1. Five sites, two isolated sites and a cemetery were located in NRMU A12.2. Four sites and four isolated sites were located in NRMU B7.2. Two isolated sites were located in NRMU B7.3. One site was located in NRMU E6.3. Three isolated sites, two sites, and one cemetery were located in NRMU E8.3. Six sites and two isolated sites were located in NRMU F7.2. One site, two isolated sites, and one cemetery were located in NRMU F 17.3. Nine sites are recommended as potentially eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places (designated by Fort Stewart as "indeterminate). These include 9LI517, 9L1532, 9LI534, 9LI507, 9LI509, 9LI315, 9LI512, 9LI312, and 9LI53 1. Sites located in NRMU E6.3 and F7.2 have been determined not eligible since "the information that makes the site eligible for the National Register under Criterion ‘D' is inaccessible due to the presence of unexploded ordinance" (letter from Mr. Richard Cloues, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer to Lt. Colonel Carey W. Brown, dated June 22, 1998).