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The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY
Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY
Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Significance: The Desert Botanical Laboratory is important as the first center for the study of desert plant ecology, and for the outstanding scientists who paved the way for further development in the study of... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Protect your parks - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Protect your parks - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Poster promoting conservation of parks, showing a tree. Date stamped on verso: Jul 20 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Winter sports, national & state parks / Dorothy Waugh.

Winter sports, national & state parks / Dorothy Waugh.

Two people with ski poles standing in snow in wooded area. Promotional goal: U.S. E8. 193-.

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Significance: Haley Farm State Park possesses local significance as a well-preserved and increasingly rare historic agricultural landscape. Local artifact finds and professional inspection indicate that the si... More

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Significance: Haley Farm State Park possesses local significance as a well-preserved and increasingly rare historic agricultural landscape. Local artifact finds and professional inspection indicate that the si... More

Winter sports, national & state parks / Dorothy Waugh.

Winter sports, national & state parks / Dorothy Waugh.

Two people with ski poles standing in snow in wooded area. Promotional goal: U.S. E8. 193-.

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bastrop State Park, Bastrop, Bastrop County, TX

Bastrop State Park, Bastrop, Bastrop County, TX

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Fourth Place Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N889 Survey number: HABS TX-3522 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97001242

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Wild Cat Can[y]on, Ill's. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Wild Cat Can[y]on, Ill's. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Significance: Haley Farm State Park possesses local significance as a well-preserved and increasingly rare historic agricultural landscape. Local artifact finds and professional inspection indicate that the si... More

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Double Trouble State Park, County Road 618, West of Garden State Parkway, Double Trouble, Ocean County, NJ

Double Trouble State Park, County Road 618, West of Garden State Parkw...

Significance: Double Trouble developed in the early 19th century supporting lumber and cranberry industries. Purchased by the state in the 1960s and converted into a state park, today the village exists as a we... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

Montserrat Recreation Demonstration Area, Route 132 South of McPherson Street, Knob Noster, Johnson County, MO

Montserrat Recreation Demonstration Area, Route 132 South of McPherson...

Significance: The Montserrat Recreational Demonstration Area served as a model land reclamation project. It was designed and built by participants in the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Con... More

Island Beach State Park, Island Beach, East of Barnegat Bay, Seaside Park, Ocean County, NJ

Island Beach State Park, Island Beach, East of Barnegat Bay, Seaside P...

Survey number: HABS NJ-1071 Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Staatsburgh, Old Post Road, Staatsburg, Dutchess County, NY

Staatsburgh, Old Post Road, Staatsburg, Dutchess County, NY

Survey number: HABS NY-6387 Building/structure dates: 1895 Initial Construction

"Only God can make a tree" - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

"Only God can make a tree" - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Con...

Poster promoting conservation of trees as a natural resource. Date stamped on verso: Aug 1 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Fort de Chartres, Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, IL

Fort de Chartres, Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, IL

Survey number: HABS IL-304 Building/structure dates: after 1750 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1772 Demolished National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000329

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY
Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Picryl description: Public domain image of gates, gateway, passage, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Significance: The Desert Botanical Laboratory is important as the first center for the study of desert plant ecology, and for the outstanding scientists who paved the way for further development in the study of... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Significance: Haley Farm State Park possesses local significance as a well-preserved and increasingly rare historic agricultural landscape. Local artifact finds and professional inspection indicate that the si... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Fort de Chartres, Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, IL

Fort de Chartres, Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, IL

Survey number: HABS IL-304 Building/structure dates: after 1750 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1772 Demolished National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000329

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Significance: Haley Farm State Park possesses local significance as a well-preserved and increasingly rare historic agricultural landscape. Local artifact finds and professional inspection indicate that the si... More

Double Trouble State Park, County Road 618, West of Garden State Parkway, Double Trouble, Ocean County, NJ

Double Trouble State Park, County Road 618, West of Garden State Parkw...

Significance: Double Trouble developed in the early 19th century supporting lumber and cranberry industries. Purchased by the state in the 1960s and converted into a state park, today the village exists as a we... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

National and state parks, skiing, skating, sliding, sleighing / Dorothy Waugh.

National and state parks, skiing, skating, sliding, sleighing / Doroth...

Person on skis. Promotional goal: U.S. E8.193-. Promotional goal: U.S. K3.193-.

Please keep the park clean - Art Deco public domain image

Please keep the park clean - Art Deco public domain image

Poster encouraging conservation of a natural resource area, showing a boy holding a butterfly net, sitting against a tree. Date stamped on verso: Oct 18 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Lib... More

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Significance: Haley Farm State Park possesses local significance as a well-preserved and increasingly rare historic agricultural landscape. Local artifact finds and professional inspection indicate that the si... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

Island Beach State Park, Island Beach, East of Barnegat Bay, Seaside Park, Ocean County, NJ

Island Beach State Park, Island Beach, East of Barnegat Bay, Seaside P...

Survey number: HABS NJ-1071 Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Brown's Park, Colorado / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Brown's Park, Colorado / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing aerial view of rugged mountains and a river. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mi... More

Florida Caverns State Park, 3345 Caverns Road, Marianna, Jackson County, FL

Florida Caverns State Park, 3345 Caverns Road, Marianna, Jackson Count...

2014 Entry HALS Challenge: Documenting the Landscapes of the New Deal, Honorable Mention recipient. Significance: Florida Caverns State Park is significant in the early twentieth-century history of Florida as o... More

Fort de Chartres, Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, IL

Fort de Chartres, Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, IL

Survey number: HABS IL-304 Building/structure dates: after 1750 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1772 Demolished National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000329

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Significance: The Desert Botanical Laboratory is important as the first center for the study of desert plant ecology, and for the outstanding scientists who paved the way for further development in the study of... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, Novato, Marin County, CA

Olompali State Historic Park, Mary Burdell Garden, U.S. Highway 101, N...

Significance: The Mary Burdell Victorian Garden is a notable example of formal Victorian garden design. It represents the distinctive characteristics and aesthetics advocated by garden designers and horticultur... More

Highlands Hammock State Park, 5931 Hammock Road, Sebring, Highlands County, FL

Highlands Hammock State Park, 5931 Hammock Road, Sebring, Highlands Co...

2014 Entry HALS Challenge: Documenting the Landscapes of the New Deal, Honorable Mention recipient. Significance: Highlands Hammock State Park is significant in the early twentieth-century history of Florida a... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

Montserrat Recreation Demonstration Area, Route 132 South of McPherson Street, Knob Noster, Johnson County, MO

Montserrat Recreation Demonstration Area, Route 132 South of McPherson...

Significance: The Montserrat Recreational Demonstration Area served as a model land reclamation project. It was designed and built by participants in the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Con... More

Poinsett State Park , 6660 Poinsett Park Road, Wedgefield, Sumter County, SC

Poinsett State Park , 6660 Poinsett Park Road, Wedgefield, Sumter Coun...

Entry 2014 HALS Challenge: Documenting Landscapes of the New Deal, Honorable Mention recipient. Significance: Poinsett State Park gains its significance through its association with the Civilian Conservation Co... More

Spare our trees - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Spare our trees - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Poster promoting conservation of trees as a natural resource. Date stamped on verso: Aug 17 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. L... More

Fort de Chartres, Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, IL

Fort de Chartres, Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, IL

Survey number: HABS IL-304 Building/structure dates: after 1750 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1772 Demolished National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000329

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

Bastrop State Park, Bastrop, Bastrop County, TX

Bastrop State Park, Bastrop, Bastrop County, TX

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Fourth Place Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N889 Survey number: HABS TX-3522 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97001242

Fort Clinch State Park, 2601 Atlantic Avenue, Fernandina Beach, Nassau County, FL

Fort Clinch State Park, 2601 Atlantic Avenue, Fernandina Beach, Nassau...

Addendum was an entry in the 2014 HALS Challenge: Documenting Landscapes of the New Deal, Honorable Mention recipient. Significance: Fort Clinch is one of the most well-preserved nineteenth-century forts in the... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

Brown's Park, Colorado / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Brown's Park, Colorado / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing aerial view of rugged mountains and a river. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mi... More

Mount Tamalpais State Park, The Mountain Theater , Rock Spring Trail, East Ridgecrest Boulevard, Mount Tamalpais State Park, Mill Valley, Marin County, CA

Mount Tamalpais State Park, The Mountain Theater , Rock Spring Trail, ...

2nd Place Winning Entry 2014 HALS Challenge: Documenting the Landscapes of the New Deal Significance: The Mountain Theater is significant: -as a work of landscape architecture associated with landscape architec... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

Ravine Gardens State Park, 1600 Twigg Street, Palatka, Putnam County, FL

Ravine Gardens State Park, 1600 Twigg Street, Palatka, Putnam County, ...

2014 Entry HALS Challenge: Documenting the Landscapes of the New Deal, Honorable Mention recipient. Significance: Ravine Gardens State Park is significant in the early twentieth-century history of Florida as o... More

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Fort Pike, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Fort Pike was the first of the Third System Fortifications. Considered part of the "Monroe forts of the 1st class," the fort was one of the many forts ... More

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Haley Farm, Brook Street, Groton, New London County, CT

Significance: Haley Farm State Park possesses local significance as a well-preserved and increasingly rare historic agricultural landscape. Local artifact finds and professional inspection indicate that the si... More

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Guernsey State Park Museum, Highway 317, Guernsey, Platte County, WY
The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North to South: East Jefferson Street to East Van Buren Street. West to East: South Gadsden Street to Marvin Street., Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

The Smokey Hollow Community, Informal boundaries by street name: North...

Significance: The story of Smokey Hollow forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods. Through... More

Wild Cat Canyon, Ill's - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Wild Cat Canyon, Ill's - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Vertical format. Listed in Detroit Publishing Co. negative log as enlargement of no. 563. "Detroit Photographic Co." and "0563" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0563. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 015114. G... More

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