The federal government is reviewing a city plan to transfer property to the Great Falls National Historic Park, a key step in advancing a project envisioned as a major economic engine for Paterson. President Obama signed legislation in 2009 authorizing the National Park Service to establish the 33-acre historic site celebrating Paterson's history as the nation's first planned industrial city -- established by Alexander Hamilton -- and set boundaries for what could be included.
The Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society plans to seek input from state officials regarding how volunteers may continue to assist with upkeep now that the state budget compromise ended the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps program that provided three employees for projects at the historic site in Penn Township. Managed by the Department of Labor and Industry, the corps program was deleted from the 2011-12 budget. It had employed about 15,000 young adults since 1984 to work on conservation, recreation and historical preservation projects on the state's public lands.
The National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the General Management Plan (Final GMP/EIS) for Hampton National Historic Site (NHS), Maryland. The Final GMP/EIS identifies Alternative 3 as the NPS preferred alternative for the new GMP for Hampton NHS. When approved, the GMP will provide guidance to park management for administration, development, and interpretation of park resources over the next 20 years.
Josh Taylor, of Schumann Electric in Emporia, is reflected in a mirror at the White home as he reattaches cleaned crystals on the upstairs chandelier. The chandelier was taken down and cleaned for the opening of the state . Murf Riedel, assistant curator of the William Allen White House State , vacuums the desk where White wrote the eulogy for his daughter, Mary, who was fatally injured in a horseback riding incident. The desk is in the second-floor study at the home.
RIVER EDGE - A Revolutionary War site is set to be taken over by the Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission as soon as one issue is resolved - funding. Legislation passed in 2009 called for the state Department of Environmental Protection to transfer administration of the Steuben House and parkland to the commission once a master plan was completed. DEP Commissioner Bob Martin gave the final approval in January, but the commission is waiting for the state to hand over funds.
COLONIAL HEIGHTS - The difference between demolishing a historic church to make way for a new courthouse and saving part of the church to incorporate it into a courthouse is about $1 million. That is one of the conclusions presented in a feasibility study prepared by an architectural firm for Colonial Heights City Council, which recently approved demolishing the old Colonial Heights Baptist Church to make way for a new courthouse complex.
The National Park Service announces the availability of the Abbreviated Final , Illinois.
STOTESBURY - As a steady drizzle changed to freezing rain then snow, seven Columbia University students armed with rakes and pruning shears spent the first morning of their spring break on Monday hacking away at brush at the site of the former Mark Twain High School. While Stotesbury may be off the charts in any collegiate vacation guide, it was a fitting locale for this particular group - the Columbia University Democrats. The old coal camp town was once the home of Democratic powerhouse Robert C. Byrd, valedictorian of Mark Twain High's class of 1934.
CHOWAN COUNTY | Edenton has launched a new Web site about the life of fugitive slave, activist, abolitionist and author Harriet Jacobs , who grew up in Edenton. The Web site - www.harrietjacobs.org - was made possible through efforts of Historic Edenton State Historic Site and the Chowan County Tourism Development Authority, with matching funds from the National Parks Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program.
Staff Writer For more than a year, the Stevens/Smith historic site has been stuck.
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