54 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
June 2 Mr. Bass again reported for duty in Washington and spent 
3 weeks classifying human skeletal material from the James H. Kerr 
Reservoir in southern Virginia. He then proceeded to Pierre, S. Dak., 
and took charge of a party conducting excavations in the burial area 
at the Sully site. Mr. Bass was engaged in those activities at the close 
of the year. 
Harold A. Huscher, archeologist on the staff of the Missouri Basin 
Project, was detailed to the Washington office beginning February 
2, 1958, and on February 7 left for Georgia and Alabama, where he 
carried on preliminary surveys in three reservoir areas in the lower 
Chattahoochee River Basin. Mr. Huscher continued those activities 
until June 23 when he went to Athens, Ga., to participate in the 
conference at which Mr. Miller was also in attendance. Following 
the conference Mr. Huscher returned to Washington, and at the close 
of the fiscal year was preparing a summary report on the results of 
his explorations along the Chattahoochee. 
Alabama-Georgia—During the period February 10 to June 21 
preliminary surveys were made in the areas to be flooded by the 
Columbia Dam and Lock, the Walter F. George Dam and Lock, and 
the Oliver Dam on the lower Chattahoochee River. The Columbia 
Dam and Lock and the Walter F. George Dam and Lock are projects 
of the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, while the Oliver 
Dam is being constructed by the Georgia Power Co. The Columbia 
Dam is to be located a short distance below the bridge across the 
Chattahoochee River at Columbia, Ala. The Walter F. George Dam 
is to be built at Fort Gaines, Ga., and the Oliver Dam is located a 
short distance above Columbus, Ga. These three projects together 
will flood out 120 contiguous miles of the Chattahoochee bottoms. 
Since the area to be affected by the Walter F. George project will be 
the first to be inundated, most of the period was spent in that area, 
although some reconnaissance was made in both of the other basins. 
During the course of the survey in the Walter F. George basin, 
117 archeological sites were located and recorded on the Georgia side 
of the river and 90 sites on the Alabama side. They range from sim- 
ple village locations to areas containing the remains of several differ- 
ent cultures, and from single to multiple mound groups. In addition 
there are two historical sites of considerable importance. One is that 
of the Spanish Fort of Apalachicola, dating from 1689 to 1691, and 
the other the historic Creek town of Roanoke which was occupied by 
the whites and then attacked and burned by the Indians in 1736. Be- 
cause the exact dates of occupancy of the Fort are known, it should 
provide an important check point in working out the chronology of the 
area. Also, since the Roanoke village was burned it should be quite 
productive archeologically. The aboriginal sites range from Early 
