Archeological Overview and Management Plan for the Newport Army Ammunition Plant, Vermillion County, Indiana

摘要

The Newport Army Ammunition Plant is a 6990-acre facility containing more than 300 facility-related structures, as well as agricultural pasture lands and woodlands. As part of a general program in the AAP's historic preservation planning, a sample survey of archeological resources on the facility has been completed. Ten percent of the facility lands available for review contain 144 archeological sites: 20 either exclusively historic resources or having historic components, and the rest prehistoric sites (primarily Archaic, with some Late Woodland/Mississippian components). No specific project construction is planned for the facility, and no Master Plan with short- or long-term goals has been completed. Although a rather liberal definition of 'site' was employed in this reconnaissance survey such that 144 sites may not all be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, there is a significant portion of the facility that appears to retain intact deposits and could thus retain more archeological sites as yet unrecorded. More intensive evaluation of the identified resources needs to be completed for compliance with E.O. 11593 and with Section 110 of the NHPA. Management recommendations which include on-side inspections of known resources, test investigations of a sample of known sites to evaluate National Register eligibility, more intensive evaluation of paleoenvironmental factors for use in predicting prehistoric site locations, and geomorphological studies, are estimated to cost between $300,900 and $330,500 in 1984 dollars.