Richard B. Russell Inset Map
Interactive map with
photos of major sites

CONTENTS
Introduction
Inventorying the Area
Archival and Oral History
   Research
Documenting Historic
   Standing Structures
Archaeological Investigations  (Prehistoric and Historic)

Gregg Shoals
Rucker's Bottom
Beaverdam Creek
Mound and Village
Fort Independence
Millwood Plantation

Appendix A:
Significance of Major Historic Standing Structures

Apendix B:
Information Sources

Index to major sites
 

Other Richard B. Russell Sites:

Beneath These Waters
Popular History

In Those Days
African-American
Oral History

Russell Papers
 


SEAC HOME

  Credits

In Search of the Past

A Summary of Cultural Resources Investigations in the Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake Area

                     Georgia-Carolina Memorial Bridge


Artist's rendition of a Mississippian
village at the Rucker's Bottom site

                 Miniature pots from the Simpson's Field site