Avon Park AFR Architectural and General Base History

Summary

This project contains documents relating to both the architectural and the general history of the Avon Park Air Force Range. The documents range from amateur histories of the air force range to Historic American Engineering Record-like documentation.

Cite this Record

Avon Park AFR Architectural and General Base History. ( tDAR id: 391362) ; doi:10.6067/XCV81G0NPJ

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Culture
20th Century Military • Ays • Caloosa • Calusa • Creek Nation • Historic • Post-Columbian • Seminole

Material
Building Materials

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Military Airfield • Non-Domestic Structures

Investigation Types
Heritage Management • Historic Background Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

General
Aerospace Defense Bases • Air Defense Bases • Air Force Cold War Building Types • Air Force Cold War Property Types • Air Force Terminology • Airlift Bases • Air Material Bases • Army Air Corps • Army Air Corps Five Year Plan • Army Air Installations • Army Cold War Building Types • Army Cold War Property Types • Army Terminology • BASEOPS • Base Selection Criteria • Base Selection Process • Basic Training Bases • Battle of Okeechobee • BRAC Commission • C-38 Canal • Captain Francis Hardy • Carpetbaggers • Cattle Drives • Cattle Guard Battalion • Chief Osceola • Chief Wildcat • Cold War • Cold War Area Propoerty • Colonel Zachary Taylor • Command Mission • Consolidated Naval Stores Company • Cultural Resource Management • Dade Massacre • Disston Purchase • Education Bases • Flying Training Bases • Force Drawdown • Force Expansion • Force Structure and Basing Issues • Fort Arbuckle • Fort Bassinger • Fort Capron • Fort Gardiner • Fort Hammer • Fort Kissimmee • Fort Pierce • GA HPO • General David E. Twiggs • Georgia Historic Preservation Office • Georgia Military Working Group • GMWG • Hamilton Disston • Historical Reports • Homesteader Era • Installation Histories • Intertheater Airlift Bases • Jacob Summerlin • Lieutenant French • Lieutenant Thomas Jackson • Logistics Bases • Major Charles Munnerlyn • Major Command Requirements • Major Jonathon Letherman • Marine Corps Cold War Building Types • Marine Corps Cold War Property Types • Marine Corps Terminology • Marion Pollard • Military Landscapes • Mobility Bases • Navy Cold War Building Types • Navy Cold War Property Types • Navy Terminology • Orange Hammock • Product Centers • Research and Development Bases • Seminole Wars • Stonewall Jackson • Strategic Bases • Strategic Forces Bases • Systems Centers • Tactical Bases • Technical Training Bases • The Great War • The Wilcox Act • Training Bases • William Willingham • Willingham Branch • World War II Expansion Show More

Geographic Keywords
Arbuckle Creek • Avon Park Air Force Range • Florida (State / Territory) • Georgia (State / Territory) • Highlands County • Kissimmee Island • Kissimmee River • Lake Arbuckle • Okeechobee Basin • Polk County (County)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -81.63; min lat: 27.281 ; max long: -80.984; max lat: 28.179 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Avon Park Air Force Range

Contributor(s): Roy L. Barker; Mark A. Steinback; Amber Courselle; John Herr; Christina Osborn; Douglas C. McVarnish; Laura L. Knott; Daniel L. Haulman; Forrest L. Marion; Jeffrey P. Sahaida; Frederick J. Shaw; A. Timothy Warnock

Principal Investigator(s): Park T. DeVane; Kelly Nolte; Virgil Roy Beasley; Marsha Prior

Sponsor(s): Avon Park Air Force Range; US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District; United States Air Force History Office and Museums Program

Permitting Agency(s): United States Air Force

Repository(s): Avon Park Air Force Range

Prepared By(s): PANAMERICAN CONSULTANTS, INC.; Geo-Marine, Inc.

Submitted To(s): Fort Benning Military Reservation; Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program; Avon Park Air Force Range

Record Identifiers

Project No.(s): 03-175

OMB No.(s): 0704-0188

Avon Park Air Force Range Report No.(s): AP0001; AP0027

Delivery Order No.(s): 0065

Work Order No.(s): 18

Contract No.(s): DABT10-01-D-0017; W9126G-05-D-0009

Resources Inside this Project (Viewing 1-4 of 4)

  • Documents (4)

Avon Park AFR Architectural and General Base History

  1. HAER-Like Documentation of Airfield, Avon Park Air Force Range, Polk and Highlands Counties, Florida (2011)
  2. A History of the Lands Composing the Avon Park Bombing Range (1983)
  3. Locating Air Force Base Sites History's Legacy (2004)
  4. Military Historic Context Emphasizing the Cold War Including the Identification and Evaluation of Above Ground Cultural Resources for Thirteen Department of Defense Installations in the State of Georgia (2006)