1.0 Introduction Brockington and Associates, Inc. (Brockington) conducted a Phase I cultural resources survey for Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) anticipated power plant on a 286-acre property in Ashland City, Cheatham County, Tennessee (Figure 1.1). The purpose of this investigation was to aid TVA in its compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and provide an inventory of cultural resources in the project area, descriptions of the condition at the resources identi- fied, and recommendations regarding their National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility. The investigation was consistent with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Identifica- tion (National Parks Service [NPS] 1983) and met the requirements established by the Tennessee State Historic Preservation Office (TN SHPO) Standards and Guidelines for Archaeological Resources Stud- ies (2018), the Tennessee Historical Commission (THC) (Jones and Brackett 2019), and the TVA. The survey was conducted April 14 through 23, 2020, under the supervision of Rachel M. Perash with the assistance of Peter Counts, John O’Donnell, Patrick Sword, and Courtney Usher. Rachel M. Perash, Field Director, directed all fieldwork and was the primary report author. David Dobbs was Architectural Historian and Scott Butler served as Principal Investigator. Brockington excavated 1273 shovel tests at 30-m intervals for most of the tract. Shovel tests were not completed in areas with a slope greater than thirty percent; in these areas, a pedes- trian survey was completed at 15-m interval. Metal detecting was completed over areas where buildings are indicated on historic topographic maps. The architectural survey area (ASA) consisted of the planned tract plus an additional 0.5-mile viewshed. Prior to Brockington’s investigation, S&ME was hired by TVA to perform geotechnical boring. In order to facilitate S&ME’s schedule while maintain- ing possible cultural integrity, TVA hired Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research (TVAR) to perform a Phase I archaeological survey at the proposed bor- ing locations (Figure 1.2).
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