Roulette Farmstead: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Antietam National Battlefield, National Park Service
Everett J. 2009. Roulette Farmstead: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Antietam National Battlefield, National Park Service. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 600284. NPS National Capital Regional Office. National Capital Regional Office/CLI Database
The Roulette Farmstead is situated approximately one-half mile north of the Town of Sharpsburg in Washington County, Maryland, and consists of the entire 179.5 acre property constituting the William Roulette Farmstead as it existed at the time of the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) which occurred on September 17, 1862. The property was acquired by the National Park Service in fee simple from a private landowner in 1998 and is situated within the boundaries of the Antietam National Battlefield, which encompasses a total of 3,377 acres. The Battlefield was established in 1890 and came under the administration of the War Department from 1894 until it was transferred to the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, in 1933. The Roulette Farmstead Component Landscape is significant in three distinct areas and periods of history. Its primary significance in military history (1861-1865) results from its involvement with the Battle of Antietam during the Civil War. The property is also significant in the area of conservation for its association with early Civil War battlefield preservation efforts (1890-1933) and the numerous monuments, markers, and tour roads that are its by-products. Finally, the property is significant in the area of agricultural history for the high level of integrity that it possesses as an intact late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century agricultural landscape, (1761-1861) its intactness largely due to battlefield preservation efforts aimed at preserving the rural landscape as it existed on the eve of the Battle.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Everett, Jeff
- Date of Issue
- 2009-09-01
- Publisher
- NPS National Capital Regional Office
- Units
- ANTI , NCR
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Archeological Preservation, Barn, Battle Site, Battlefield Preservation, Battles In The North And South, Bloody Lane, Conservation, domestic, Farmhouse, Historic Preservation, Historic Vernacular Landscape, Marker, Military, outbuilding, residential, Scenic Landscape, Sharpsburg, The Civil War, The National Trust, The New Deal, Vernacular, War Department