Great Smoky Mountains National Park Historic Resource Study
Public Archaeology Labratory, Inc. (PAL), Daly J, Kline L, Olausen SA, Blythe RW. 2016. Great Smoky Mountains National Park Historic Resource Study. GRSM 133/134404/A. National Park Service. Southeast Region
This report presents the results of a Historic Resource Study (HRS) conducted for Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Great Smoky Mountains NP). It is the product of two efforts to identify and evaluate historic resources within the park. An initial draft of the HRS was prepared by Robert W. Blythe for the National Park Service’s (NPS) Southeast Regional Office in 1998 and included the identification and evaluation of resources associated with one of three historic contexts: Settlement and Community Development in the Great Smoky Mountains (1790–1933), Recreation and Tourism in the Great Smoky Mountains (1900–1933), and the Initial Development of Great Smoky Mountains National Park (1926–1942). In 2012, the Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. (PAL) was hired to complete the HRS by editing and expanding on the historic contexts included in the draft and by adding three additional contexts covering Extractive Industries in the Great Smoky Mountains (1820–1944), Early National Park Service Preservation Philosophy (circa [ca.] 1930–1960), and National Park Service Mission 66 Planning and Development (1945–1972). As part of the project, PAL revisited all the resources identified in the 1998 draft report to assess their condition and conducted fieldwork to locate and record historic resources associated with the additional historic contexts.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Public Archaeology Labratory, Inc. (PAL); Daly, John; Kline, Laura; Olausen, Steve; Blythe, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 2016
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- GRSM HRS Great Smoky Mountains Historic Resource Study