Cultural Landscape Report for Lewis Mountain, Shenandoah National Park
Torkelson J, Mason R, Nasta J, Rhodes M, National Park Service, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation. 2024. Cultural Landscape Report for Lewis Mountain, Shenandoah National Park. Cultural Landscape Report. National Park Service. Boston, MA
Lewis Mountain serves as a physical reminder of the resilience of Black communities in the face of segregation, as they sought out and created their own opportunities for recreation, relaxation, and community-building. Lewis Mountain also served as an agent of change, having served as a public reminder of National Park Segregation and catalyzing desegregation efforts within the entire Department of the Interior by 1946—a full 18 years before other public spaces in the Commonwealth of Virginia would be racially desegregated. Today, little at Lewis Mountain conveys the importance of the site to visitors. This report aims to provide the National Park Service with the documentation and planning necessary to preserve, adaptively reuse, and interpret the historic landscape of Lewis Mountain within Shenandoah National Park (Figure 0.2). This report also incorporates the guidance of historical users, including those who visited or worked at Lewis Mountain during the period of significance. It balances their guidance alongside other park partners and staff to create a more robust and informed report.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Torkelson, Jacob; Mason, Randall; Nasta, Jane; Rhodes, Monica; National Park Service, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
- Date of Issue
- 2024
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- NER
- Keywords
- Civil Rights, CLR, Cultural Landscape, Lewis Mountain, OCLP, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation UPENN, Segregation, Shenandoah National Park
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 300118: Lewis Mountain