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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"historic site"”.
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Quaternary geology of the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
… of the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site is being studied by the University of North Dakota Anthropology Department. The age of the near surface sediment and depositional history of Quaternary sediments are useful to archeologists involved in locating and interpreting the …
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Constructing An Interpretive Master Plan for The Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historic Site
<p>The Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historic Site is owned and operated by the Texas Historical Commission. Interpretation of the site spans the 1864-1940 period and includes stories of groups that once met there for social events, including the United Confederate Veterans. In recent years, …
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Aesthetic Movement Ideals in Contemporary Architecture: The President Garfield Historic Site Visitors Center
The James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio includes numerous structures of mid 19th century Victorian Era architecture. After the grounds became a national landmark in 1945, all new additions conformed to the existing historic style. This Thesis proposes that the existing visitors …
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Resistivity Survey to Identify Archaeological Features at the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site
<p>The Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site (NBHSHS) was established in 1991 upon acquisition of the property by the state of Missouri. The site is located approximately two miles north of Ash Grove in the Ozarks region of southwest Missouri, and was the home of Nathan Boone (youngest son of …
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Interpreting American Indian Cultural Heritage: Visitor's Educational Experience at Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site
… heritage is interpreted at Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site in Colorado Springs, CO. Attention was given to the distinctive ways this space acts as an educational institution that displays and interprets Colorado's cultural heritage through object-centered learning and participatory education. …
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Walkability through Challenging terrain: Connectivity between Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and Anacostia Community Museum
… to connect the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum, a sports field, and the Fort Stanton Recreation Center. The paths respond to L'Enfant's method for laying out the city in "diagonal avenues superimposed over a grid system" (Nps.gov, 2018) …
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Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Historic Cemeteries at the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site
The Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site is located two miles north of Ash Grove, Missouri. This site was originally the home of Nathan Boone (youngest son of Daniel Boone), his family, and their slaves. The site contains the Boone Family House, Boone Family Cemetery, and African American …
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The Perseverance of Play: An Archaeological Analysis of Residential Blocks with Preschools at the Amache National Historic Site
… children, within the Amache National Historic Site, a WWII Japanese American internment facility located in Granada, Colorado. Through archaeological methods, GIS analysis, oral histories, and archival research, I analyzed the landscape and material culture of the five residential …
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A proposal for the Museum of Art/Tallahassee at the Wahnish Cigar Factory Historic Site in the All Saints District
This project addresses the possible connections that occur when a place is studied at the geographic, urban, neighborhood, street, building, and personal scales. The project is located in an under-utilized area adjacent to Tallahassee's central business and state government center known as the All …
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Does the Case of Mcneill v. Masterson Support the Abandonment Hypothesis of the Former Slave Quarters at the Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site in Brazoria County, Texas?
… quarters at the Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site in Brazoria County, Texas. Originally outlined in 1989, the abandonment narrative in the interpretation of the archaeology of the former slave quarters at the Levi Jordan plantation has connected the proposed postbellum, sudden …
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LiDAR-Based Analysis of Antebellum-Era Sugar Mill Remains in Brazoria County, Texas: Investigations from Above and Below
The Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site has undergone extensive excavations and geophysical survey. Despite these efforts, some anticipated features remain undiscovered on the plantation. This research aims to assess the efficacy of LiDAR-derived digital elevation models in identifying …
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Rethinking Landscape Interpretation: Form, Function, and Meaning of the Garfield Farm, 1876-1905
… (now preserved at James A. Garfield National Historic Site) contains multiple layers of historical meanings and values. The landscape as portrayed in political biographies, political cartoons, and other ephemera during Garfield’s 1880 presidential campaign reveals the existence of the dual …
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The Health and Medical Care of Enslaved African Americans at Somerset Place, 1839-1863
… of the old structure was built on the modern historic site. To date, the Somerset Place historic site is the only plantation to have reconstructed a slave hospital. This thesis is a study of the health of enslaved African Americans at Somerset that were treated in the slave hospital. It argues …
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(re)Constructing a Landmark: A Rhetorical Analysis of Brown v Board of Education at Fifty
… of the Brown v Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka. Data was gathered from various web sites related to the National Historic Site and the events in Topeka on the weekend it was dedicated, and from database records of national and international news sources. These materials …
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IRRADIATED PLAYGROUND: THE GEORGIA NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT LABORATORY AND THE LEGACY OF THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR PROJECT
… Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory (GNAL) is a historic site located outside of Dawsonville, Georgia that is now engaged with as a place of exploration, learning, and an unofficial memorial to the past. Over the course of my research I utilized archival documents, photographs I took during site …
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Hampton Plantation: Interpreting Slavery In South Carolina
… presenting, discussing, and debating slavery at historic sites has become a prevalent topic throughout the United States. This study looks at challenges public historians face when interpreting slavery at historic house museums and offers recommendations for improvement. It specifically analyzes …
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Restoration and Adaptive Use of a Historic English Country Estate: A Learning History
Within the field of historic preservation, often a single strategy for preservation is chosen from preservation, restoration, adaptive use or reconstruction. Occasionally it is appropriate to simultaneously implement two or more of those strategies. Adopting multiple strategies requires the …
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Museums of social conscience : interpreting a troubled past.
… such as the International Coalition for Historic Site Museums of Social Conscience, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Matilda Joselyn Gage House, the Museum of African American History of Boston, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This thesis offers a current, …
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Reconstructing Somerset Place: Slavery, Memory and Historical Consciousness
… at Somerset Place, a plantation-turned-state historic site in northeastern North Carolina, and programmers and audiences have thought about and interpreted it in many different ways. When North Carolina's Department of Archives and History first adopted the former plantation into its Historic …
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