SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 9 



June 2 Mr. Bass again reported for duty in Washington and spent 

 3 weeks classifying human skeletal material from the James H. Kerr 

 Eeservoir 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 Eiver 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 



