D.R. Miller Farmstead: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Antietam National Battlefield, National Park Service
Ribeiro Jones A. 2024. D.R. Miller Farmstead: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Antietam National Battlefield, National Park Service. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 600034. NPS National Capital Regional Office. National Capital Region/CLI Database
The D. R. Miller Farmstead is situated approximately one and one-half miles north of the Town of Sharpsburg in Washington County, Maryland, and consists of 141.41 acres of the property constituting the D. R. Miller Farmstead as it existed at the time of the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) which occurred on September 17, 1862. The property was donated to the National Park Service in 1990 by a non-profit conservation organization and is situated within the boundaries of the Antietam National Battlefield, which encompasses a total of 3,377 acres. The Battlefield was established in 1890 and came under the administration of the War Department from 1894 until it was transferred to the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, in 1933. The D. R. Miller Farmstead Component Landscape is significant in three distinct areas and periods of history. Its primary significance in military history (1861-1865) results from its involvement with the Battle of Antietam during the Civil War. The property is also significant in the area of conservation for its association with early Civil War battlefield preservation efforts, including the Mission 66 improvements to the park, (1890-1967) and the numerous monuments, markers, overlooks, and tour roads that are its by-products. Finally, the property is significant in the area of agricultural history as a late eighteenth/early nineteenth century agricultural landscape, (1799-1861) whose landscape integrity is largely due to battlefield preservation efforts aimed at preserving the rural landscape as it existed on the eve of the Battle.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Ribeiro Jones, Angelina
- Date of Issue
- 2024-07
- Publisher
- NPS National Capital Regional Office
- Units
- ANTI , NCR
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Barn, Battlefield Preservation, Battles In The North And South, Conservation, Cornfield, domestic, farm, Farmhouse, Historic Preservation, Historic Vernacular Landscape, Marker, Military, plantation, residential, Scenic Landscape, Sharpsburg, Single Family Dwelling, Texas Brigade, The Civil War, The New Deal, Vernacular
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 600034: D.R. Miller Farmstead