Cultural Resources Survey Of Island No 8 Relief Wells And Collector Ditches Fulton County Kentucky

At the request of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District, Panamerican consultants, Inc. of Memphis, Tennessee, performed a cultural resources survey near Island no. 8 of approximately 133 acres of proposed relief wells and collector ditches in Fulton County, Kentucky. the project area consisted of two different widths: 100 feet (30 m.) landward from the levee toe for the relief wells, and 50 feet (115 m) on either side of the collector ditches. Six previously recorded sites (15FU34, 15FU35, 15FU55, 15FU64, 15FU137, and 15FU138) are mapped within the study area and their locations were revisited. Eleven previously unrecorded sites were identified, all of which are mid-twentieth-century historic scatters. Six previously recorded structures were mapped within the study area: five of them have been razed or otherwise destroyed, the sixth is a floodgate structure currently being utilized. Two of the identified sites, 15FU55 and 15FU64 were recommended for further work when they were initially recorded due to the possibility of buried features. They are outside the current project area and will not be affected. However, they are close to the Right Of Way and caution must be exercised to avoid these two sites. If this is not possible, then further work is required to determine their National Register of Historic Places eligibility status will be necessary. The remaining sites and structures all date from the early to middle part of the twentieth century and are recommended as not eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. No further archaeological work is recommended for those locations.