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This report presents the results of Phase I and II archaeological investigations on the Avon Park Air Force Range (APAFR) in Polk and Highlands counties, Florida. This work was conducted by Geo-Marine, Inc. (GMI), under a contract (DACA63-99-D-0010, Delivery Orders 059, 060 and 065) with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, acting on behalf of the Air Combat Command (ACC) and APAFR. The purpose of this study is to provide the APAFR with data for use in the management of its...
Avon Park Air Force Range: Cultural Resources Inventory and Assessment (1997)
This report presents the results of cultural resources investigations conducted on 6,800 noncontiguous acres on Avon Park Air Force Range (APAFR) in Polk and Highlands counties, Florida. The investigations consisted of a Phase I cultural resources survey, a predictive model for locating prehistoric cultural resources in the form of a land stratification structure, a World War II historic context, and historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Level IV documentation of extant World War II...
Fourth Cliff Recreation Area - History Pamphlet (2017)
Pamphlet discussing a brief history of the Fourth Cliff Recreation Area including its popularity as a vacation spot in the 1800's to its conversion to an Air Force Field Station in 1948.
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form - New Boston Air Force Station Archaeological District (2004)
The New Boston Air Force Station (NBAFS) Archaeological District is a time capsule of New Hampshire and New England history. The 2,826-acre District contains a diverse and wide-ranging array of archaeological sites and structures representative of human occupation of the region beginning with the Archaic Period (10,000-3,000 B.P.) and ending with the use of the land as a bombing range during World War II and the early Cold War periods of U.S. history. The district is like no other archaeological...
Phase I Archaeological Survey Management Unit 10A, Avon Park Air Force Range, Avon Park, Florida (1998)
This survey consisted of a Phase I archaeological survey of Management Unit 1 OA, ca. 3,400 acres, located in the extreme southeast comer of the facility. The purpose of the survey was to assist APAFR in compliance with Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, and various Air Force regulations. Topographic relief is minimal and open hammocks and grasslands are the dominant vegetation in the vicinity of the river. Various flatwood communities dominate~...
Phase I Archaeological Survey Management Units 1,2,7,8,11,11A,12, and 13, Avon Park Air Force Range, Avon Park, Florida (1999)
In a continuing effort to comply with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida, conducted two Phase I archaeological surveys, in the Fall of 1998 and in the Spring of 1999. The surveys were contracted through Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, Virginia, and Moody AFB, Georgia. One survey, conducted in November and December of 1998, investigated a 5,700 acre (2,307 hectare) portion of Management Units 1 and 2. The second survey...