Project Description: This project will provide Gettysburg National Military Park with the research, written and graphic documentation, and resource management prescriptions to support the preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of the historic Rose Ridge-Houck’s Ridge cultural landscape within the Gettysburg Battlefield. The project will document the historic development of the cultural landscape occupied by the Rose, Warfield, and Snyder farms during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, encompassing approximately 400 acres. It will also document the existing conditions of the landscape, including current park uses and resource values; analyze and evaluate the cultural landscape, including an inventory of landscape features that identifies those that are historically significant and those that are not; and provide recommendations for the future management of the cultural landscape that address enhancement of the landscape’s historic character and improvement of its contemporary use and natural resources.
Lead Principal Investigator: John Auwaerter, SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Daniel Cronan, SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Partner Institution: SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Federal Agency: National Park Service
Federal Agency Technical Contact: Robert Page
Project Type: Research
Project Discipline: Cultural Resources
Project Sub-Discipline(s): Cultural and Historic
Start Year: 2022
End Year: 2024
Initial Funding Amount: $128,500.00
Federal Grant Number: P22AC01897
Location: Gettysburg National Military Park
National Park or Protected Area: Gettysburg National Military (NPS)
State(s): Pennsylvania
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