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CRM staff examining an old livestock-dip discovered after a controlled burn.
The primary goal of the Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield Cultural Resources Management (CRM) program is to protect significant historic properties while maintaining the largest possible area for training. We accomplish this through aggressive planning, surveys, and close coordination with trainers, planners, and land managers.
Early archeology work at Fort Stewart in the 1970s and 1980s involved small-scale cultural resources investigations either in association with major construction projects, or excavation of major sites such as Fort Argyle, an early colonial fort located on the installation. In 1984 a comprehensive archeology survey of Hunter Army Airfield was conducted by the University of Tennessee, directed by Directorate of Public Works, Environmental and Natural Resources Division personnel.
In the mid-1990s a permanent Cultural Resources Program was established at Fort Stewart and began the direction of successive large-scale archeological surveys, which greatly contributed to our knowledge of area history and prehistory and enabled faster review and approval of construction projects on the Fort Stewart Reservation. The large-scale surveys begun at this time have led to a proposed reworking of the Fort Stewart survey model, potentially decreasing future survey costs and time.
Besides large-scale archeological surveys, other efforts in the early 2000s included a comprehensive historic building survey of Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield. The completion of the surveys identified historic buildings on post, cut down on consultation with the Georgia State Historic Preservation Office and enabled quick review of projects.
Currently CRM efforts are focused on a number of goals, chief of which are revisions of the legal agreements and program models that CRM currently works under to better serve both the military and historic properties, improvements in curation facilities, and bolstering our public education and outreach program regarding Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield archeology and history. In the meantime, the CRM program is continuing to monitor and protect historic sites while working with other installation departments to clear upcoming projects.
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