Historic (Culture Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Joyce. Alice Good.

Intensive-level architectural history survey and consultation for the proposed removal of four berms associated with late nineteenth to early twentieth century cranberry bogs. The intensive-level survey concluded that the berms lack association with important historical events or persons in the cranberry industry, do not possess integrity of design, feeling, and association, and are no longer within a setting indicative of cranberry farming. The survey assessed the berms as not eligible for the...

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An unsigned draft of the lease agreement proposed by Fort Sam Houston for Building 259. This lease is part of a group of correspondence reviewing the lease agreement for Building 259, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The Texas Historical Commission and Department of the Army, Fort Sam Houston review each other's comments and a draft of the lease agreement os included.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glenn P. Chapman.

This project is for the purchase of land in Blossom Point, Maryland which is currently leased by the Government for use by the Harry Diamond Laboratories (HDL) as a field test area, part of which is utilized through an out-grant from HDL to the Navy for use by the Navy as a communication station to contact earth satellites. The property owners do not wish to continue this lease, therefore the Government in consideration of the cost and factors involved in clearing the land of unexploded...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Evans.

Michilimackinac, located at the crossroads of the Great Lakes, was a fortified trading settlement and entrepôt, rather than a traditional military fort. Although the military played an important role at the settlement, more than half of the space within the palisade walls was taken up by the church/mission complex and civilian homes. This paper will examine the French Canadian civilian experience at Michilimackinac through the prism of the excavation of a specific row house unit, House 7 of...

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This letter gives a description of the undertaking and the assessment of its effect to rehabilitate the north and south wings of Building 661, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. This letter is part of a group of letters and supporting documentation for the proposed undertaking to rehabilitate the south wing of the first floor and the north wing of the basement at Building 661, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. The projects focus on the interior of the building that was originally constructed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John W. Cottier.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

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This undertaking is the refurbishment of the interior of Building 208, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. The interior will contain 24 classrooms. This document gives the description of the undertaking, the assessment of its effect, and Randolph Air Force Base's proposed stipulation to the undertaking. This document is part of a collection of correspondence concerning the proposed rehabilitation of Building 208, a historic Post Garage, at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Included are letters of...

PROJECT USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

Located in Joseph City, Navajo County, Arizona, portions of the Joseph City Irrigation System is being rehabilitated so it can function more efficiently and reliably for local water-users. The historic irrigation system was determined to be eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria A, C, and D based on archival research conducted by Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) for the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) (Schilling 2004). To mitigate the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Schilling.

Located in Joseph City, Navajo County, Arizona, portions of the Joseph City Irrigation System is being rehabilitated so it can function more efficiently and reliably for local water-users. The historic irrigation system was determined to be eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria A, C, and D based on archival research conducted by Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) for the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) (Schilling 2004). To mitigate the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Florence C. Lister. Robert H. Lister.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matt Bischoff.

With the German Afrika Korps driving across the North African desert with impunity in 1941 and 1942, the U.S. Army realized that it might be called upon to assist its British ally in the fight against the Germans and Italians. Egypt, along with the strategic Suez Canal and the Middle East in general, were in danger of being lost to the Axis powers. It became imperative that the Axis be expelled from North Africa. The U.S. Army, however, had never fought a large-scale war in a desert environment....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matt Bischoff.

With the German Afrika Korps driving across the North African desert with impunity in 1941 and 1942, the U.S. Army realized that it might be called upon to assist its British ally in the fight against the Germans and Italians. Egypt, along with the strategic Suez Canal and the Middle East in general, was in danger of being lost to the Axis powers. It became imperative that the Axis be expelled from North Africa. The U.S. Army, however, had never fought a large-scale war in a desert environment....

PROJECT Heather McDonald.

This document provides assistance to installation-level staff who are not trained in historic architecture by providing a better understanding of why it is important to preserve the resources, what they are, the vocabulary to describe the resources, and how to interpret the Secretary of the Interior's Standards to appropriately manage the resources. The guidelines provide sound guidance and necessary tools for individuals to facilitate the Section 106 review process of the National Historic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather McDonald. Michelle Michael.

This document provides assistance to installation-level staff who are not trained in historic architecture by providing a better understanding of why it is important to preserve the resources, what they are, the vocabulary to describe the resources, and how to interpret the Secretary of the Interior's Standards to appropriately manage the resources. The guidelines provide sound guidance and necessary tools for individuals to facilitate the Section 106 review process of the National Historic...

PROJECT Tina Reames.

This project provides guidelines intended to facilitate the planning of rehabilitation projects that will result in improved energy efficiency in historic buildings operated by the Department of Defense (DoD) and help the DoD meet historic preservation and energy savings design goals.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cherry/See/Reames Architects.

These guidelines are intended to facilitate the planning of rehabilitation projects that will result in improved energy efficiency in historic buildings operated by the DoD and help the DoD meet historic preservation and energy savings design goals.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cherry/See/Reames Architects.

These guidelines are intended to facilitate the planning of rehabilitation projects that will result in improved energy efficiency in historic buildings operated by the DoD and help the DoD meet historic preservation and energy savings design goals.

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Aerial perspectives of the Air Force Personnel Center, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Exhibits 1-B, 9-A, and 9-B of the Master Plan.

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A number of original aircraft hangars at Randolph Air Force Base have been converted into administration and squadron operations buildings. Hangars 12 and 64 were converted to flying training squadron operations functions and Hangar 13 was converted to the Air Force Occupational Measurement Center. Hangars 12 and 64 specifically only have entrance through the original hangar (Judas) doors which do not meet fire code. This packet details the design plans for new entrances to these hangars that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Y. Brame.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

IMAGE Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory.

This record contains a detailed photographs of coins and ornaments generated during archaeological investigations of the Mattapany site and nearby areas, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. The artifacts in these photographs were originally accessioned under the MAC lab numbers 1998.032 and 1998.034.

IMAGE Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc..

Photographs of the distillery vats, still bases, and plumbing at the Douw-Quackenbush distillery, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Site, Albany, NY. Citation for Figure 4: "Spirit Distillation." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Ann Arbor: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.438>. Trans. of "Distillateur...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Murtagh.

Determination of Eligibility of Notification from the National Register of Historic Preservation, Ballast House at Blossom Point. The Secretary of the Interior has determined that this property is Eligible. Also includes correspondence from the Keeper of the National Register to Col. Clifton R. Goodwin responding to the request for determination of eligibility.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson. Paul R. Sheppard. Michael H. Ort.

Understanding the full range of interactions between human groups and volcanic eruptions is of great importance, not only for predicting volcanic hazards and potentially saving lives, but also for insights into human behavior and specifically, on the ways in which populations adapt to catastrophic events. However, most accounts of human/volcano interaction are confined to the past few hundred years, thereby limiting the number of cases and the formulation of predictive models. In this...

IMAGE Stephanie Barrante. Victoria Hawley. Jessica Hughes.

Images illustrating the installation, utilization, and evolution, 2006-2010 of a dewatering system at the site of Fort St. Joseph to lower the ground water table sufficiently to allow for excavation.