CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT AND ARCHEOLOGICAL SENSITIVITY ASSESSMENT FOR VICTORY WOODS
Stephens C, White L, Griswold W, Coffin Brown M. 2007. CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT AND ARCHEOLOGICAL SENSITIVITY ASSESSMENT FOR VICTORY WOODS. National Park Service, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, Boston, Massachusetts
Located in the Village of Victory within the Town of Saratoga, in the heights above the Hudson River, Victory Woods contains a portion of the British field fortification and encampment from the Revolutionary War. Since the NPS acquired Victory Woods in 1974, the site has remained unused by visitors due to lack of suitable access to the site and lack of park programs or interpretive services that take advantage of the site’s historic resources. The park’s 2004 General Management Plan (GMP) identifies rehabilitation as the general treatment approach for park resources including the opening of Victory Woods. Historical evidence indicates that this site has remained largely undisturbed since the war. Except for a potable water supply system which was confined to a small area, no building is known to have taken place on the site, and it is unlikely that the tract was ever used for agricultural purposes. Thus, these defensive remains in Victory Woods may now provide virtually the only surviving coherent and visible evidence of the famous American siege of the British army in 1777. While the parcel was a strategically important piece of land during the Revolutionary War, the site was used by Native American use as far back as the Middle and Late Archaic periods. The park’s GMP suggests that the landscape character at select locations be evocative of landscape conditions of October 1777, the views important to the interpretation of the battles be reestablished, the character-defining landscape features of Victory Woods be identified and rehabilitated, and that the interpretation emphasize the Burgoyne Campaign within the broader context of the Revolutionary War relying on visitor contact with rehabilitated landscape features and exhibits, in addition to media.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Stephens, Christopher; White, Linda; Griswold, William; Coffin Brown, Margie
- Date of Issue
- 2007-09-25
- Units
- SARA
- Keywords
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