A corporate client of the consulting firm ARCADIS, Geraghty and Miller, Inc. is considering developing a 70.1 ha (173.2 ac) tract of land about 3 km east of Monroe, in central Walton County. For their planning purposes, the client requested that the tract be archeologically surveyed so that they would be apprised of potentially significant cultural resources that might affect their development plans. Southeastern Archeological Services, Inc. conducted a Phase I archeological survey of the tract in May, 1999. No archeological sites had been previously recorded for the tract. Sixteen sites and five isolated artifact occurrences were recorded during our survey. Two of the sites are late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century farmsteads, two are historic period rock piles, two are prehistoric lithic and ceramic scatters, nine are prehistoric lithic scatters, and one is a scatter of prehistoric lithics and historic period material. Three sites have an Early Woodland component (with Woodland Stemmed Points) and one has a Late Archaic(Savannah River) component. The two historic period farmsteads were occupied until the 1970s,and aerial photographs show most of the project area under cultivation since 1939. We recommend that none of the sixteen sites and five artifact occurrences are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places because none possess the potential to yield important new information on the history and prehistory of the area (Criterion D).
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