US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District

In May 1976, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, contracted with the University of Alabama Office of Archaeological Research to conduct extensive archaeological investigations within the Gainesville Lake (present day Gainesville Reservoir) area of West- Central Alabama. The lake area is a “run of the river” reservoir that is part of the Tennessee- Tombigbee Waterway project located in Sumter, Greene, and Pickens Counties. The Craigs Landing Site (1GR2) is located on the east bank...

The Artifact Collections in Tishomingo County October 1978 investigation falls under the purview of USACE, Mobile District and is curated by the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University. The assemblage was found with the Divide-Cut Section Archaeological Testing and Data Recovery II 1977-1985 investigation. It consists of prehistoric artifacts recovered during archaeological investigations conducted in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. There were no associated records for this...

No reports were present for the Barbour County Arbitrary (Multiple) 1968-1979 and N.D. Investigations. The artifacts were grouped together because they lacked much provenience information and could not be linked to specific investigations, principal investigators, or investigating institutions with any degree of confidence. The dates and information associated with these artifacts seem to indicate that the artifacts were collected after the creation of Walter F. George Lock and Dam in 1964. It...

The Blackmon site, occasionally referred to as the Blackbro site, is a multi-component archaeological site in Barbour County, Alabama. W.R. Hurt of the University of Alabama recorded it in 1949. The Smithsonian Institution investigated the site in 1959 and David DeJarnette surveyed a portion of the site in 1975. During his 1975 survey DeJarnette noted that a large amount of historic trade goods had been looted from the Blackmon site, and the looting continued throughout the 1970’s (Huddleston...

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 “Buford Reservoir Sites 1951-1955.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is six linear inches. Documentation associated with Buford...

The Walter F. George Lock and Dam is a United States Army Corps of Engineers project located south of Columbus, Georgia on the eastern bank of the Chattahoochee River. Prior to the construction of the dam, there were already obvious indications that the Cemochechobee site (9CY62, formerly 9CLA62) was rapidly being eroded due to the ebb and flow of the Chattahoochee River. Prior to the archaeological salvage of Cemochechobee, the dam had also significantly damaged that portion of the site facing...

This collection is referred to as “Cemochechobee Archaeological Investigations at the Walter F. George Dam Mound Site (9CLA62) 1977-1979.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one (1) linear inch. The documents date from 1976 to 1977, with the majority of the documents dating to 1977. The final report associated with the investigation was written in 1979, which explains the date range in the investigation...

The Veterans’ Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Coosa River Photographs 1880.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is two linear inches. The Augusta, Georgia Veterans Curation Program (VCP) received the photographs from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District by way of Andrea Adams when she visited...

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Coosa River Profile 1915.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The document collection includes two portions of a profile of the Coosa River, which were mailed to the St. Louis District and then transported to the Augusta lab by Andrea Adams. The extent of this collection is approximately six (6)...

This collection is referred to as "Divide-Cut Section Archaeological Testing and Data Recovery I 1976-1978.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is three-and-a-half (3.5) linear inches. This collection was separated from the Divide-Cut Section Archaeological Survey and the Divide-Cut Section Archaeological Testing and Data Recovery II collections, with which it was intermingled. For a time, both Divide Cut I...

This collection is referred to as “Divide-Cut Section Archaeological Survey 1974-1976.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is eight (8) linear inches. This collection was separated from the Divide-Cut Section Archaeological Testing and Data Recovery I and II collections, with which it was intermingled. For a time, both Divide Cut I and the Divide Cut Survey were processed as a single collection, in which the...

The provenience of the Fishing Lure Vessel, also referred to as the “Fishing Lure Pot,” is unknown. However, it is known to have been taken from an area near site 9SW1 by a fisherman who claimed that it was caught on his fishing lure. When the fisherman brought the vessel to Frank Schnell and the Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Schnell concluded that it had been “removed from a burial at the Rood site or a site from this same cultural period within Lake Walter F. George Property”...

The Flintlock Burial artifacts do not have an associated report. The extent of available information on the Flintlock Burial artifacts comes from the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Preliminary Compliance Report for the Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences Collections from Lake Walter F. George, Alabama and Georgia by Connie Huddleston. The Flintlock Burial includes human skeletal material from one individual along with two associated flintlock firearms. These materials...

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 "Florence Site (9SW124) 1988-1990.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is fifteen (15) linear inches. The Florence Site (9SW124)...

The Jackson site, 1BR35, is primarily a large historic Lower Creek village with minor prehistoric components. The Jackson site was first recorded in 1959 by Harold Huscher and was excavated in 1960-1961 by David L. DeJarnette and a field crew from the University of Alabama. During that time he documented excavation of three burials. In 2000, “Brockington technicians documented a minimum of four individuals, 6 associated funerary objects, and no unassociated funerary objects.” Although these...

The Jackson site, 1BR35, is primarily a large historic Lower Creek village with minor prehistoric components. The Jackson site was first recorded in 1959 by Harold Huscher and was excavated in 1960-1961 by David L. DeJarnette and a field crew from the University of Alabama. During that time he documented excavation of three burials. In 2000, “Brockington technicians documented a minimum of four individuals, 6 associated funerary objects, and no unassociated funerary objects.” Although these...

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...

The Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 collection has its origins in a 1958 Smithsonian Institution survey of the Chattahoochee River basin in preparation for the construction of dams which resulted in the Walter F. George Reservoir. This survey identified Mandeville (9CY1) as the highest priority site found at that time. Excavations at Mandeville (9CY1) took place in 1959 under the direction of Principal Investigator James H. Kellar of the University of Georgia. He was assisted in the field by...

The Millers Ferry 1963-1968 investigation is the responsibility of USACE, Mobile District, and is curated by the OAR in Moundville, Alabama. The collection consists of historic and prehistoric artifacts recovered from the archaeological investigation of 27 sites in the area of the Millers Ferry Lock and Dam reservoir, Wilcox County, Alabama. USACE, Mobile District planned the construction of the Millers Ferry Lock and Dam on the Alabama River under the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1945. The...

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 "OAR Projects Progress Reports 1968-1972.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is two (2) linear inches. The progress reports were...

No report was present for the Investigations. The sites identified during this investigation were not given site numbers on the original bags, but an inventory was included that listed many of the artifacts as having come from site 1HO27. Site 1HO27 is a small Late Woodland/Early Mississippian Period site on the “…north bank of an unnamed creek that joins Bear Creek just north of the Houston-Geneva County line” (Brooms 1975). It includes a prehistoric mound known as Seaborn Mound, Crawford...

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 "Omussee Creek Park (1HE4) 1977.” 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. On the exterior of the...

This is a store ledger donated by a descendant of the store proprietor. Therefore, this collection is referred to as the Pickensville, Alabama Store Ledger, 1841. This name is consistent throughout the finding aid and the box labels. The extent of this collection is 1.66 (one point six-six) linear feet. The Pickensville Alabama Store Ledger was donated to the United States Army Corps of Engineers by Jimmy Wilbourne and consists of the store’s day by day sales from July 1, 1841 through October...

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...

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)...

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...

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,...

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....

The Shell Bluff document collection was obtained from the Cobb Institute of Archaeology, University of Mississippi. The original housing of this collection consisted of 66 linear inches of acid-free tri-tab folders contained within five acid-free boxes, plus a half-box of photographs. Document boxes were labeled 0192 to 0196 by the Cobb Institute. A majority of the folders were housed according to provenience rather than by record type. Also, although folders were numbered sequentially, there...

No documentation is present for the investigations that comprise the Stewart County Arbitrary 1969-1978 Investigations. Some of dates of the investigations are unknown, but based on the dates that are present it appears that the investigations took place from 1969 to 1978. Despite the lack of documentation pertaining to these investigations, some information on the sites could be found in an older report. Harold Huscher investigated some of the sites in 1958 and published a report in 1959...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta laboratory in April of 2014. The Augusta VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which was staffed through New South Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm located in Stone Mountain, Georgia between April of 2014 and April of 2015. Between...

The only information present with the Tyrone Mims Arbitrary (1BR?) 1988 investigation was the information written on the bags and the paper tags that arrived with the collection. No report was present for this collection and as a result who Tyrone Mims is, or was, has not been established. It is highly likely that Tyrone Mims was a local man residing around the Walter F. George Lake property and in August of 1988 collected a group of prehistoric ceramics from a wildlife refuge in Barbour County,...

This collection is referred to as the “Walter F. George River Basin Survey 1960-1971 investigation.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The majority of the documents from this collection date from 1960 to 1971, which explains the date range in the investigation name. However, there is one document that has a date range from 1960 to 1976, which is an oversized map that...

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 "Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is six (6) linear inches. The Walter F. George Sites 1957-1962...

The Veterans’ Curation Project utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Warrior River Photograph 1922.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a half of a linear inch. The Augusta Georgia Veterans’ Curation Project (VCP) received the photographs from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri during the...

This collection is referred to as, "White Springs Site (22IT537) 1979-1986.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is five (5) linear inches. The White Springs Site (22IT537) 1979-1986 archival collection was contained within acid-free boxes and in acid-free folders within the larger Shell Bluff collection. These collections are permanently housed at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology, University of Mississippi....