US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District VCP

Ledger packaging upon reception at AVCP.

Ledger condition upon reception at AVCP showing first page of original Ledger order.

Ledger condition upon reception at AVCP with approximately half the pages removed from original box.

Ledger condition upon reception at AVCP showing brittle composition of last few pages of Ledger.

Ledger condition upon reception at AVCP showing brittle composition of documents set on Ethafoam®.

Last page of Ledger and pieces of paper in bottom of original box.

Pieces of Ledger documents scattered on Ethafoam® in bottom of box.

Archivists cutting Ethafoam® to protect Ledger from compression.

Archivist holding encapsulated Ledger document with page number on sticky note.

Encapsulated Ledger document in new archival box with page number on sticky note.

Archivist holding encapsulated Ledger document above first new archival box showing Ethafoam® padding between layers.

Encapsulated Ledger document with bad glare demonstrating photosensitivity of Mylar®.

Same page of encapsulated Ledger document laying flat without glare.

Archivist placing encapsulated document in new archival box.

Ledger documents protected in Ethafoam® sitting in new archival box and first draft of the Table of Contents.

Draft copy of Table of Contents for Pickensville Store Ledger (2 pages).

Draft copy of Table of Contents for Pickensville Store Ledger (3 pages).

Page of Table of Contents with dated note at bottom.

New archival box not large enough for Ledger after encapsulation and Ethafoam® protection.

Archivists creating larger archival box for Ledger.

Archivists constructing base and sides for larger archival box.

Archivists measuring side for larger archival box.

Larger archival box cut out before construction.

Archivists reinforcing corners of larger archival box.

Archivists measuring corners of larger archival box.

Ledger packed in Ethafoam® on table with reference binders in work area and new box material in background.

Scrap from larger archival box material.

Archivists measuring reinforcements for larger archival box.

Archivists making measurements for larger archival box and Exacto ®knife in foreground.

Archivists placing reinforcement in corner.

Close-up of archivist holding corner reinforcement in place.

Archivists measuring larger archival box before construction.

Archivists measuring edges of larger archival box with corner reinforcements and Exacto ®knife in foreground.

Scrap materials and tools for to create new, larger archival box.

Archivists holding constructed larger archival box.

Archivists folding larger archival box.

Archivists applying glue to larger archival box.

Glue applied to larger archival box.

Glue partially spread on larger archival box.

Archivist spreading glue on larger archival box with Elmer®'s glue in the foreground.

Glue spread out on larger archival box.

Close-up view of paper packages being used as weight to compress box side with glue and clothespins to help glue to adhere to box material.

Wider view of paper packages being used as weight to compress box side with glue in foreground and clothespins to help glue to adhere to box material.

Archivists using materials to create corner reinforcements for new, larger archival box.

Paper packages being used as weight to compress box side with glue with one side finished front view and clothespins to help glue to adhere to box material.

Angled view of paper packages being used as weight to compress box side with glue with one side finished and clothespins to help glue to adhere to box material.

Constructed lid for larger archival box held together temporarily with clothespins.

This is the scanned asset key for the Pickensville Alabama Store Ledger collection stored at the Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia.

The Rood’s Landing Site (9SW1), also known as Rood’s Creek, was described by Caldwell as a Mississippian Period mound center consisting of eight mounds and a large village at the confluence of Rood’s Creek and the Chattahoochee River in Stewart County, Georgia. It was first described by C.B. Moore in 1907, and recorded again in 1939 by Wauchope (Atz, Huddleston & Sweeney 2000). In 1955, four of the mounds were tested by Joseph R. Caldwell (Caldwell 1955). Caldwell’s report was published in the...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Project’s (VCP) Augusta, Georgia laboratory in the fall of 2009. Before arriving at the Augusta VCP Laboratory, the artifacts were housed temporarily in the Brockington and Associates laboratory in Norcross, GA. During this time, technicians in Norcross conducted a NAGPRA inventory, which is documented in Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA ) Preliminary...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Project’s (VCP) Augusta, Georgia laboratory in the fall of 2009. Before arriving at the Augusta VCP Laboratory, the artifacts were housed temporarily in the Brockington and Associates laboratory in Norcross, GA. During this time, technicians in Norcross conducted a NAGPRA inventory, which is documented in Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA ) Preliminary...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Rood’s Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is fourteen linear inches. The Rood’s Landing (9SW1)...

On November 9, 11, 12, and 13, 1981 a cultural resource assessment in the vicinity of the City of Lumpkin, Georgia was conducted by Frank T. Schnell, Principal Investigator and R. Donald Gordy, Field Investigator. Five sections of a proposed sanitary sewer system are planned with assistance from FmHA. Two of these (Sections 1 and 2, see Figure 2) are under existing road rights-of-way which have been disturbed to the extent that they are excluded from this survey. Section 3 extends approximately...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Rood’s Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is fourteen linear inches. The Rood’s Landing (9SW1)...

This is the Oversized Material Database for the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 collection.

This is the Photographic Material Database for the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 collection.

Reconstructed rim sherd during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Whole vessel A1 collected during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Whole vessel A2 during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Whole vessel A3 during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Museum exhibit case during the archaeological investigation in the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Native mound field during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Archaeology exhibit during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 in the Chatthoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Enlarged archaeology exhibit during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Topographical map of Recreation area during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Double exposure license plate and pilings during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Distant view of Constructed retention wall during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Close up of pilings and fill during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Pilings and fill sign and water during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Distant view of retaining wall during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Distant view of retaining wall during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Boater passing retaining wall during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Mound A pre-retaining wall during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Retaining wall construction front of mound A during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Left side retaining wall discolored during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Man construction worker on retaining wall during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Near ending retaining wall during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Lighter aerial of site post retaining wall during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Showing pottery rim sherd eroding from bank during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Showing feature erosion during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Showing feature erosion (2nd Shot) during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Showing shoreline during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Showing single pottery sherd decorated in water during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Showing multiple pottery sherds on shoreline during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in Stewart County, Georgia.

Showing sign during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

Showing erosion at bank shoreline small dead tree nearly parallel to water during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 in the Chattahoochee River area in Stewart County, Georgia.

This is the scanned asset key for the Rood's Landing (9SW1) 1955-1985 collection stored at the University of Georgia, Laboratory of Archaeology, Athens, Georgia.

The Rood’s Landing Site (9SW1), also known as Rood’s Creek, was described by Caldwell as a Mississippian Period mound center consisting of eight mounds and a large village at the confluence of Rood’s Creek and the Chattahoochee River in Stewart County, Georgia. It was first described by C.B. Moore in 1907, and recorded again in 1939 by Wauchope (Atz, et al. 2000). In 1955, four of the mounds were tested by Joseph R. Caldwell (Caldwell 1955). However, over the next thirty years Rood’s Landing was...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta, Georgia laboratory in the fall of 2009. Before arriving at the Augusta VCP Laboratory, the artifacts were housed temporarily in the Brockington and Associates laboratory in Norcross, GA. During this time, technicians in Norcross conducted a NAGPRA inventory, which is documented in Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA ) Preliminary...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta, Georgia laboratory in the fall of 2009. Before arriving at the Augusta VCP Laboratory, the artifacts were housed temporarily in the Brockington and Associates laboratory in Norcross, GA. During this time, technicians in Norcross conducted a NAGPRA inventory, which is documented in Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA ) Preliminary...

Photographs of ceramic artifacts collected during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) Arbitrary 1968-1979 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoocheee River area, in Stewart County, Georgia.

Photographs of lithic artifacts collected during the Rood's Landing (9SW1) Arbitrary 1968-1979 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoocheee River area, in Stewart County, Georgia.

The Rood’s Landing site (9SW1), also known as Rood’s Creek, was described by Caldwellas a Mississippian Period mound center consisting of eight mounds and a large village at the confluence of Rood’s Creek and the Chattahoochee River in Stewart County, Georgia. It was first described by C.B. Moore in 1907, and recorded again in 1939 by Wauchope (Atz, Huddleston & Sweeney 2000). Later, “large surface collections were made by the Smithsonian, the University of Georgia, the University of Alabama,...

The Rood’s Landing site (9SW1), also known as Rood’s Creek, was described by Caldwellas a Mississippian Period mound center consisting of eight mounds and a large village at the confluence of Rood’s Creek and the Chattahoochee River in Stewart County, Georgia. It was first described by C.B. Moore in 1907, and recorded again in 1939 by Wauchope (Atz, Huddleston & Sweeney 2000). Later, “large surface collections were made by the Smithsonian, the University of Georgia, the University of Alabama,...

The Rood’s Landing site (9SW1), also known as Rood’s Creek, was described by Caldwellas a Mississippian Period mound center consisting of eight mounds and a large village at the confluence of Rood’s Creek and the Chattahoochee River in Stewart County, Georgia. It was first described by C.B. Moore in 1907, and recorded again in 1939 by Wauchope (Atz, Huddleston & Sweeney 2000). Later, “large surface collections were made by the Smithsonian, the University of Georgia, the University of Alabama,...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Rood’s Landing Tom Meltzer (9SW1) 1975 and 1980.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is two-tenths (0.2) of a linear inch. The Rood’s...

This is the Scanned Asset Key for the Rood's Landing Tom Meltzer (9SW1) 1975 and 1980 collection stored at the University of Georgia, Laboratory of Archaeology, Athens, Georgia.

No reports are present for the Russell County Arbitrary (Multiple) 1969 and N.D Investigations. It is a multi-investigation collection comprised of numerous small investigations. Two of the sites in the Russell County Arbitrary (Multiple) 1969 and N.D. Investigations are mentioned in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Preliminary Compliance Report for Ten Sites at Lake Walter F. George, Alabama and Georgia, prepared by Brockington and Associates in 2000 (Atz, et.al....

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta, Georgia laboratory in the fall of 2009. The Augusta VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections project, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates, an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia. After 22 September 2011, the collection was...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta, Georgia laboratory in the fall of 2009. The Augusta VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections project, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates, an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia. After 22 September 2011, the collection was...