Scull Shoals, Georgia

Scull Shoals is a former rapids and community on the Oconee River in Greene County, Georgia.

A nearby prehistoric earthworks and an area used for forestry research also bear the name "Scull Shoals".

In the Southeastern Piedmont, the term "shoals" is often used to describe a stretch of a river where rocks impede boat traffic.

At the time of European settlement, erosion was exposing the skulls of indigenous persons buried there.

Archaeologist Mark Kelly estimated most of the mound-building occurred in the late Etowah to Savannah periods (circa A. D. 1250).

However, it was killed by the effects of the economic system that, for a while, gave the mill life, but ultimately disintegrated from its own abuses.

An example of research conducted at the Experimental Forest was littleleaf disease, which affects shortleaf pine trees.