Between 9 and 20 September, 1980, Southwind Archaeological Enterprises of Tallahassee, Florida, a private consulting firm, conducted a program of intensive archeological investigations of a 100 acre tract of the Fort Stewart Military Reservation. The investigations were funded by the United States Army and administered by Interagency Archeological Services - Atlanta at the request of the Army in its fulfillment of legal responsibilities with regard to cultural resources. The tract of land in question is the site of a proposed Ammunition Supply Point. The projected movement of earth during construction was high, thus threatening all cultural resources that might occur within the confines of the development. The archeological investigations included a pedestrian survey and an auger sampling of subsurface materials at thirty-meter intervals throughout the entire project area. No prehistoric or historic resources were located by the survey or sampling program, and a literature and document search suggests that no historic structures were ever erected within the 100 acre tract. The on-location documents and records search focused largely on land title history and the relationships of the project area to the historic community of Taylors Creek, the oldest documented settlement in the immediate vicinity.
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