Andersonville Memorial Landscape: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Andersonville National Historic Site, National Park Service
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. and John Milner Associates, Inc.. 2010. Andersonville Memorial Landscape: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Andersonville National Historic Site, National Park Service. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 550146. NPS Southeast Regional Office. Southeast Regional Office/CLI Database
The Andersonville Memorial Landscape is approximately 514.01 acres in size, including its component landscape, the Andersonville National Cemetery, at 27.15 acres. Most of the site is located in Macon County, Georgia, about one mile east of the town of Andersonville and about eleven miles north of Americus, Georgia. State Highway 49 runs through the western third of the site and its centerline serves as the border between Macon County and adjacent Sumter County. Several acres of the park are on the western edge, in Sumter County. The site is located within an area of gently rolling terrain that comprises the upper reaches of the East Gulf Coastal Plain as it approaches the Georgia Piedmont region. The most dominant physical characteristic of this landscape is Stockade Branch stream valley. The Andersonville Prison was located strategically astride this waterway for purposes of health and hygiene, good intentions that later ran afoul in numerous ways. The Andersonville Memorial Landscape contains historic buildings, structures, and monuments; historic roads and road traces; pre-historic and historic archaeological sites; trees that can be dated to the commemorative historic period; and modern visitor amenities, including the National Prisoner of War Museum/visitor center with parking lot. Access to the museum/visitor center is from Georgia State Highway 49 by means of a winding asphalt road that was installed in 1997.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.; John Milner Associates, Inc.
- Date of Issue
- 2010-08-09
- Publisher
- NPS Southeast Regional Office
- Units
- ANDE , SER
- Keywords
- American Civil War, Andersonville, Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville Prison, Battlefield, Camp Sumter, Clara Barton, Georgia, Macon County, Memorial Landscape, Sumter County