Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Geneva Levee Rehabilitation Project, Geneva, Alabama

摘要

In June 2000, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted a Phase I cultural resources survey of the proposed Geneva levee rehabilitation project. The Geneva levee is an earthen structure that nearly encircles the downtown portion of Geneva. The levee was completed in 1938 with funds provided by the Works Progress Administration. The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) developed plans for the rehabilitation of the levee after floods in 1990 and 1998 threatened it. The project included an intensive architectural survey of the proposed levee right-of-way and immediately adjacent areas, and an intensive archaeological survey of three proposed borrow pit sites and selected areas of the proposed levee right-of-way. The survey identified 10 historic architectural resources within the project area. One house and one bridge are recommended eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Site 061195 is a single family house built in two stages, the first part in approximately 1867 and the second in approximately 1900. Site 061 245 is a timber frame bridge built in 1901 to carry the Louisville and Nashville Railroad over Commerce Street. Archaeologists identified one isolated find and no archaeological sites. As currently designed, the levee rehabilitation project will not affect any historic properties.