Archeological Overview and Management Plan for the Saginaw Army Aircraft Plant, Tarrant County, Texas

摘要

The Saginaw Army Aircraft Plant (AAP), located three miles north of Fort Worth in Saginaw, covers 155 acres. It is a government-owned operation under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Troop Support and Aviation Materiel Readiness Command (TSARCOM). Its primary mission is the production and testing of helicopters for delivery to the Army and other government and commercial contractors. Historic and modern ground disturbance on facility lands include plant construction, parking and runway paving, two burn pits, a holding pond, and sewer and gas lines. Land surfaces at the facility are of sufficient age to contain cultural remains dating from the Paleo-Indian era, but are unlikely to retain significant prehistoric cultural remains. There have been no previous cultural resource studies conducted on the facility and no previously recorded sites are present. No sites on or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places are presently identified there. Management recommendations include more intensive archival and archeological field inventory, and development of any needed historic preservation plan for any ground-disturbing project-specific compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Such recommended work is estimated to require between 108 and 132 professional work-hours and to cost between $2160 and $2200 in FY84 dollars.