Fruitful Legacy: A Historic Context of Orchards in the United States, with Technical Information for Registering Orchards in the National Register of Historic Places
Dolan SA. 2009. Fruitful Legacy: A Historic Context of Orchards in the United States, with Technical Information for Registering Orchards in the National Register of Historic Places. Cultural Landscape Guidance Documents. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. National Park Service
A Historic Context of Orchards in the United States, with Technical Information for Registering Orchards in the National Register of Historic Places. The purpose of this historic context study is to provide information about the development of the most common types of orchards and fruit trees in the United States and to encourage the nomination of these potential cultural landscapes to the National Register of Historic Places. This study describes the events, important individuals, patterns of development, and spatial characteristics associated with these horticultural properties. The study also provides a national context for identifying and evaluating landscapes that may be eligible under Criterion A through D as defined by the National Register. While this historic context was prepared primarily for national park managers, the context is national in scope and may be useful to orchard managers and researchers outside of the national park system. This context study addresses the most common types of old orchards in the national parks that were identified by a 1992 inventory. The study emphasizes most woody, temperate fruit trees such as apple, apricot, cherry, olive, peach, and pear, but generally not tropical or non-woody (monocotyledonous) fruit trees, such as banana, pineapple, avocado, and papaya. Some historic context is provided for citrus orchards, such as lemon and orange, and some context is provided for nut orchards, such as almond, hazelnut, pecan and walnut. However, the majority of context is focused on the most common temperate orchards.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Dolan, Susan
- Date of Issue
- 2009
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- NETN , WEFA
- Keywords
- context, fruit trees, fruitful legacy, Historic, National Register of Historic Places, orchards, registering orchards, technical information