The National Park Service and the Preservation of Historic Sites and Buildings

1941 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 18-19
Author(s):  
Newton B. Drury
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Park Service

The Human Remains from Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

1938 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg K. Neumann
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Assistant Director

The writer is indebted to Mr. Verne E. Chatelain, Assistant Director of the National Park Service, Branch of Historic Sites and Buildings, and to Mr. Alonzo W. Pond, Archaeologist, for the invitation to make this study. Particular thanks are due to Mr. Pond for his generous permission to use the four photographs that deal with the find of the prehistoric miner, and for much of the archaeological information related to this discovery.

scholarly journals Understanding Visitor Motivations at Jimmy Carter National Historic Site: A Principal Components Approach

Heritage ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-334
Author(s):  
Zachary Miller ◽  
William Rice ◽  
B. Taff ◽  
Peter Newman
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Historic Site ◽  
The People ◽  
Natural Parks ◽  
Visitor Experiences ◽  
Park Service

National park sites draw tourism all across the United States. Although large natural parks see much attention, most national park units are actually designed to protect and interpret unique cultural and historic resources. As an example of this, the National Park Service administers numerous presidential historic sites. However, we know very little about the people who visit them. Understanding visitor motivations to presidential historic sites can help to provide for better visitor experiences of presidential resources. This research uses intercept surveys at the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in Plains, Georgia, to gain an understanding of visitor motivations. From the results, seven motivation types are identified. The information in this article can be used to better understand public values related to presidential resources, and to help the managers of these resources to improve on-site experiences by addressing visitor motivations.

scholarly journals Continuing Soapstone Reasearch in Memory of J.D. Love, Teton Range, Wyoming

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Richard Adams
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
University Of Wyoming ◽  
Service Research ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Research Station ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Teton Range ◽  
The University

Operating under grants from the University of Wyoming-National Park Service Research Station and the Wyoming Historical Society, personnel from the Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist and volunteers spent eight days performing a cultural resource survey of parts of the Jedediah Smith wilderness in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. Our survey took place on the west side of the Teton Range in the Badger Creek and Bitch Creek drainages. We surveyed more than 350 acres and recorded four sites in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest: an historic mine and cabin, two new prehistoric sites, and a soapstone source. While all the historic sites would benefit from evaluation by an historian, none of the sites is in need of further work.

Resuscitating the Promise

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 129-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo Shea ◽  
Maryann Zujewski ◽  
Jonathan Parker
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Historic Site ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Park Service

This article explores the challenges and opportunities that accompany efforts on the ground to nurture innovation as we promote stewardship, preserve valued places, advance education, and facilitate citizens’ connection to their parks and historic sites in the second century of the National Park Service. Using the first nationally designated historic site, Salem Maritime, as a case study, we examine efforts to grapple with bureaucratic inertias, entrenched patterns of insularity, and reliance on top-down authority. Support from leadership is necessary to allow education and interpretation staff on the ground to invite scholars, teachers, school districts, community educators, park neighbors, and others to participate in developing more engaged, complex, multivocal, and democratic histories and a broader vision for the new century in the NPS.

Archaeology in the National Park Service

1940 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 274-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Works Progress Administration ◽  
Trust Fund ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Park Service

Briefly, the historical background for the legal framework and administrative machinery established for archaeological survey and research in the National Park Service, should be reviewed. The Antiquities Act of 1906 and the Historic Sites Act of 1935, the latter growing out of a special study of European and American legislation and precedents for the conservation of historic monuments instituted by the Secretary of the Interior, are particularly important. Also passed in 1935, was an Act to create a National Park Trust Fund which compares with the National Trust of Great Britain; the National Park Trust of the United States grew out of the same studies which found legal expression in the Historic Sites Act of 1935.More recently, by coöperative agreement, arrangements have been made for the review of archaeological and historical restoration projects carried out under relief auspices; these involve the operative procedures established by the Works Progress Administration, requiring the technical review of all research and survey project applications by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, Branch of Historic Sites.

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