Cultural heritage and land management plan for the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor
Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission. 1989. Cultural heritage and land management plan for the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor. Uxbridge, MA
This report contains the management plan to protect the cultural heritage of Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor. The unique cultural and natural resources of the Blackstone River Valley are as important to our national heritage as battlefields or homes of presidents. Yet, located as they are amid a living community, many of these resources cannot, and should not, be managed or cared for in isolation from the Valley communities of which they are a part. Consequently, Congress came up with the National Heritage Corridor designation as the right way to protect the Valley’s significance. This new, more ambitious plan represents a revolutionary departure from the traditional concept of national parks, as well as from the Blackstone River National Park plan proposed by 1936. The National Heritage Corridor is unlike a traditional park or historic site where people come to view historic or natural resources. The Corridor seeks to preserve nationally significant cultural and natural assets right where the people of the Blackstone Valley actually live and work.