United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983Williams, Mark2008-02-29Encyclopedia article about the Irene mounds. The Irene mounds were located five miles northwest of downtown Savannah in Chatham County, and are now completely destroyed; they lie under the ship docks controlled by the Georgia Ports Authority. The site, however, was almost completely excavated by professional archaeologists from 1937 to 1940 as part of the Works Progress Administration, or WPA, archaeological excavations conducted in many places across Georgia. Its importance rests on the fact that it was the most completely excavated mound site in Georgia.GSE identifier: SS2H2text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Archaeology--Georgia--SavannahExcavations (Archaeology)--Georgia--SavannahGeorgia--AntiquitiesHistoric sites--Georgia--SavannahMounds--Georgia--SavannahIrene moundsText