Administrative history of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Chase-Harrell P, Ely C, Moss S. 1993. Administrative history of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site. Park Administrative Histories. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Boston, Massachusetts
This report describes the vision and creation, operation and obstacles, and renewing the vision for the Salem Maritime National Historic Site. It is fitting that the National Park Service, as the nation's leading historical agency, study its own history, and to that end the NPS North Atlantic Regional Office in 1990 commissioned this administrative history of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site. Salem's administrative history is a particularly interesting one for several reasons. First, as one of the oldest historic properties within the the parks system, it encompasses most of the development and changes in historic site administration within the National Park Service's history. Second, Salem more than most parks in the system, has been dependent on the cooperative efforts of other entities, public and private, for its development and operation. Third, as one of the earliest urban sites in the system, it encountered the need to interact with neighbors before this was common in the Park Service. This report describes the vision and creation, operation and obstacles, and renewing the vision for the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Chase-Harrell, Pauline; Ely, Carol; Moss, Stanley
- Date of Issue
- 1993-02-09
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- HIST , SAMA
- Keywords
- Cultural Resources, ehistory, Salem Maritime