Cultural Landscape Report for Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Vol. II, Treatment
Killion J, Foulds E, Brown MC. 2018. Cultural Landscape Report for Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Vol. II, Treatment. Cultural Landscape Report. LCCN 2018040396. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation. Northeast Regional Office, Boston, Massachusetts
This Treatment Implementation Plan focuses on the 100-acre village landscape, with the courthouse in its core, and the roads, buildings, fences, agricultural fields, and woodlots that surround it. It elaborates on several treatment recommendations set forth in the 2009 “Cultural Landscape Report” completed by John Milner and Associates. The Milner report supported preparation of the park’s 2010 draft “General Management Plan and Environmental Statement,” and included a Site History, Existing Conditions, Analysis, and Treatment Recommendations, as well as period plans (1,200-scale) for 1865 and 1937, and an existing conditions plan. However, several recommendations pertaining to the village area were general in scope, or suggested future research. The scale of the period plans did not provide sufficient detail to implement vegetation recommendations, and there was no period plan for 1968, a critical point in the park’s development and the year when 30 years of research and planning efforts were essentially completed. To better inform several of the treatment recommendations from the CLR, this report provides specific guidance and additional research, including: • Detailed period plans (800-scale) and supporting narratives for 1865, 1937, 1968, and 2018 to inform treatment recommendations. • Illustrated treatment plans, annotated photographs, and supporting research for treatment projects related to circulation, vegetation, views, and small-scale features. • Tables summarizing the evolution of landscape characteristics and features in 1865, 1937, 1968, and 2018. This report also proposes several new treatment projects. In April 2017 the Olmsted Center staff met with park staff to document existing conditions, review previous reports and recommendations, and develop treatment implementation approaches, alternatives, and priorities. The Treatment Implementation Plan follows the format of the cultural landscape report, which is the primary document used by the National Park Service to inform long-term management and treatment decisions for its historically significant landscapes as defined in A Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports: Contents, Process, and Techniques (National Park Service, 1998). This report also conforms with guidelines established by the National Park Service D0-28: Cultural Resource Management Guideline (1997) and The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes (1996). In accordance with National Park Service guidelines, this report will aid with the long term preservation of park resources, address visitor experience and safety, and ensure organizational effectiveness. It will facilitate work planning, ensure the perpetuation of the landscape’s historic character, improve the condition of landscape resources, and diminish deferred maintenance in the park. Lastly, project statements in this report will expedite compliance for Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and serve as descriptions and justifications for the Project Management Information System (PMIS).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Killion, Jeffrey; Foulds, Eliot; Brown, Margie
- Date of Issue
- 2018
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
- Units
- APCO
- Keywords
- Appomattox Battlefield Site, Appomattox Court House, Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Architecture, Cemetery, Civilian Conservation Corps, Clover Hill, CLR, Conquest And Emancipation, Conservation, Correctional Facility (Jail), Courthouse, cultural landscape, cultural landscape report, Expressing Cultural Values, Historic Furnished Interior, Historic Site, landscape preservation, Leisure-Passive (Park), Military, Monument (Marker, OCLP, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, Period Revivals (1870-1940), Plaque), Road-Related-Other, Robert E. Lee, Shaping the Political Landscape, Single Family House, Specialty Store (Shop), The Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, Vernacular
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 300089: Appomattox Court House Landscape