An intensive cultural resources survey was carried out for the Georgia Transmission Corporation' s proposed Cookville Substation in Terrell County, Georgia. The project was carried out in compliance with Section 106 of the National f1istoric Preservation Act by personnel qualified under 36 CFR part 61. The total area surveyed included a roughly 0.4 hectare (I acre) area of impact for the substation construction. No previously identified historic or prehistoric cultural resources were located within the project tract boundaries through background research at the Georgia State Historic Preservation Division nor with the State Site Files Database maintained by the Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia. One (1) archaeological locality was encountered during the survey (9TE39). The site consisted of nine (9) recovered artifacts (all chert debitage). All of the artifacts were located on the surface, and none of the shovel tests were positive. Less than 20 cm of plowzone topsoil remain at the location. The site appears to have been eroded and partially redeposited from the top of the small adjacent rise and does not present any potential for intact buried features (at least within the project tract). Due to the disturbance and the paucity of artifacts, the site is not considered to be eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
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