Colorado Engineering Context

King, Joseph

From introduction: "The Colorado Historical Society, Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, is proud to present this set of historic contexts for the State of Colorado. The set includes regional historic contexts and also topical contexts which summarize and evaluate the history of the state from the earliest historic events up through World War II... Four "topical" contexts were developed: Engineering, Urbanization and Planning, Historical Archaeology and Architecture. The Engineering context is oriented toward a history of engineering technology. This context is organized by topics including Water Resources, P·ower Resources, Transportation, Industry, Mining, Communications, and Waste Disposal. Within each topic are themes for the various specific resources types. For example, the themes within Power Resources include Petroleum and Shale Oil, Natural Gas, Uranium, Electric Power and Coal... The overall purpose of these reports is to provide a framework to identify and record the historical resources in the state and to provide research direction to analyze the significance and preservation of these resources. The contexts can provide guidance for state and federally mandated cultural resource management, as well as direction for pure research. We anticipate that the recording and evaluation of historic sites will benefit by using the combined contexts." Funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Colorado State Historic Preservation Office and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Colorado Engineering Context

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