Cultural Landscape Report for Booker T. Washington National Monument. Site History, Existing Conditions, Analysis and Treatment

摘要

Booker T. Washington National Monument (Booker T. Washington NM) has been the subject of numerous studies focussing on long-range planning, archeology, and interpretive programming. The following cultural landscape report (CLR), encouraged by National Park Service (NPS) policy and recommended by the parks 2000 General Management Plan (GMP), continues this process and provides background information and basic treatment recommendations to implement sound cultural landscape treatment. This report includes an illustrated chronological site history documenting how the property changed over time due to internal and external forces. The existing conditions chapter documents what resources are extant, including vegetation, structures, topography, hydrology, and views. The analysis and evaluation chapter addresses the significance and integrity of the landscape based on the National Register of Historic Places criteria. Landscape treatment recommendations are provided in keeping with the philosophical foundations of the Secretary of the Interiors Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. Together, these discreet chapters offer management a tool that is based on historical research and comparative analysis of related properties. It was intended that this report consider and balance the many complexities of the site, including the limited documentation of the primary period of significance, the goal of representing multiple layers of history, and the sensitive question as how to tangibly interpret slavery. These, and other considerations, are incorporated into the treatment recommendations.