In February 2022, Te1Tacon Consultants Inc. (Ten-aeon), conducted a cultural resource assessment survey (CRAS) of the Sugar Creek Apartments Tract in Bibb County, Georgia (Figure 1.1). The project area is located within the Bolingbrooke (2020 Edition) United States Geological Surveys (USGS) quadrangle topographical map and is located at 600 North Lamar Road. The investigation was undertaken on behalf of Investors Management Company in anticipation of complying with a request from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA), Historic Preservation Division (HPD) under project number, GP-211109-001. The proposed project is for the construction of four, two- and three-story multi-family residential apartment buildings and a community building.
The goals of the CRAS were to locate, delineate, identify, and evaluate cultural resources within the proposed project area, and to assess their significance and potential eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The term "cultural resources" as used herein is meant to refer to sites or objects that are archaeological, architectural, and/or historical in nature.
All work will comply with the cultural resource provisions of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (PL 89-190, as amended) and its implementing regulation 36 CFR Part 800 (Protection of Historic Properties). The Principal Investigator meets the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Archaeology and Historic Preservation (36 CFR Part 61).
The proposed Area of Potential Effects (APE) for this project includes the property boundaries as direct effects, and the neighboring parcels for visual (indirect) effects, set at 500ft sun-ounding the project area. Prior to fieldwork, a search of the Georgia Archaeological Site Files (GASF) and the Georgia's Natural and Historic Resources GIS (GNARHGIS) identified no cultural resources within the APE.
Fieldwork associated with the cmTent CRAS consisted of a pedestrian inspection coupled with shovel tests. Architectural survey methods consisted of a review of the Bibb County Tax Assessors (BCTA) website, a review of the GASF and GNAHRGIS for any previously recorded resources, and a pedestrian investigation to field verify all architectural resources within the project area. The fieldwork was conducted by archaeologist Joshua Newman under the direction of Brent Handley, who served as Principal Investigator.
During the current study, no archaeological sites were identified or located within the project APE.
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