Cultural Resources Survey of Portioins of the Currahee Club, Stephens County, Georgia

A cultural resources survey was conducted by the author of approximately 96 acres on the southern end of the Currahee Club in eastern Stephens County, Georgia in April, 2005. The survey was done under contract with Hayes, James, and Associates, Inc., of Norcross. The land surveyed had been severely eroded, graded, and logged within the past 300 years since European settlement began there in the early 1700's. As a result, there was very little topsoil remaining on the ground. Native red-orange sandy clay was exposed in many places. There had been roads and trails bladed and plants removed from many parts of the terrain, with the results that the surface visibility was greater than 40% overall. The terrain was steep and dissected, leaving very few places level or even near level. Often those places had been graded for roads or building or landscaping materials storage. A careful visual examination, with screened subsurface testing where visibility was obscured, produced very limited remains of prior historic or prehistoric occupation. A single thin scatter of glass, pottery and brick fragments were found to mark a probable mid-20th Century trash dump. A single quartzite Morrow Mountain projectile point or knife was found just outside the survey boundary. There were no sites found eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. There should be no cultural resources impediments to the continued development of the Golf Club, residential areas, or the wastewater treatment plant designated for the surveyed portions of the Currahee Club.