I was down in Knoxville this evening and picked up an issue of Metro Pulse, a weekly paper on life in and around the city. There was an interesting story on an effort to preserve a site associated with Longstreet’s unsuccessful attempt to take the city in the fall of 1863. Here’s an online version if you’d like [...]
Archive for the ‘Historic Preservation’ Category
Saving a Civil War site in Knoxville
Posted in Civil War, Historic Preservation, Tennessee History, tagged Civil War Knoxville, Knoxville on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Digging up one battlefield, tearing up another
Posted in Civil War, Historic Preservation, Tennessee History, tagged Civil War, Civil War Knoxville, Fort Sanders, historic archaeology, Historic Preservation, Wal-Mart, Wilderness Wal-Mart on August 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Here’s a story that ran on the NBC affiliate out of Knoxville last night. Archaeologists are excavating the site of Confederate works from the siege of Knoxville and assault on Ft. Sanders.
Here’s another one about the Orange County Board of Supervisors striking a blow for low-wage, dead-end retail jobs; corporate competition for locally-owned businesses; and even more [...]
URGENT: Battlefield in trouble
Posted in American Revolution, Historic Preservation, Museums and Historic Sites, tagged American Revolution, Battle of Brandywine, Brandywine Battlefield, Revolutionary War on August 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Brandywine Battlefield, one of the most important Revolutionary War sites in the country, is in some serious trouble, and its supporters have set up a website where you can get information and offer your support.
Due to a loss of state funding, the park’s supporters are trying to raise enough money to keep the site running [...]
Take a second to help a battlefield
Posted in Civil War, Historic Preservation, tagged Battle of Franklin, Civil War, Franklin, Historic Preservation on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’d like a quick, super-easy way to preserve a battlefield, then take a look at this post on Eric Wittenberg’s blog and follow the link there. All you have to do is type a few words into an online form, and it won’t cost you a dime—but it’ll help keep some important Civil War ground intact.
The economic cost of non-preservation
Posted in Civil War, Historic Preservation, tagged battlefield preservation, Historic Preservation, Wal-Mart, Wilderness Battlefield, Wilderness Wal-Mart on August 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the ongoing controversy over the proposed Wal-Mart at the Wilderness battleground, as in so many similar disputes, it’s easy to get the impression that people who oppose development are standing in the way of the community’s economic well-being. Historic preservation, we’re told, comes at the expense of jobs and tax revenue. The implication is that historians hundreds [...]
Scoping out the Wilderness Wal-Mart location
Posted in Civil War, Historic Preservation, Museums and Historic Sites, tagged Historic Preservation, Wilderness Battlefield, Wilderness Wal-Mart on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been wondering exactly where the contested Wilderness Wal-Mart location sits in relation to the battlefield, maybe Wikimapia can help. This satellite view shows the general area of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania battlefields. The spot Wal-Mart wants is on the upper left corner of the big rectangle in the center that’s marked “Chancellorsville/Wilderness Battlefield Park.”
As you can [...]
Close to home
Posted in Historic Preservation, Museums and Historic Sites, Tennessee History, tagged Claiborne County, Local history, Tazewell, Tennessee historic sites on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I got a real shock when I read a new post over at the fantastic Posterity Project blog today. The Tennessee Preservation Trust has released its list of the state’s most endangered sites, and one of them is the Graham-Kivette House in Tazewell. This ca. 1810 home is by far the oldest house in the area, and it’s [...]
Blogging the Wilderness Wal-Mart
Posted in Civil War, Historic Preservation, History on the Web, Museums and Historic Sites, tagged Wilderness Battlefield on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was looking at a comment to my last post and noticed that WordPress had automatically generated a link to an interesting site. It’s a blog devoted to the Wilderness Wal-Mart controversy, with handy links and information on what’s at stake. Check it out.
On using battlefields
Posted in Historic Preservation, History and Memory, Museums and Historic Sites, tagged Battlefields, historic sites on April 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Not long ago I went to a military park located in the middle of a fairly good-sized city. I arrived bright and early, and as I headed into the visitor center, I noticed a couple walking their dogs along the trail. I didn’t really think anything about it.
After seeing the exhibits, I hit the trails [...]
Threatened places for 2009
Posted in Historic Preservation, Uncategorized, tagged 11 Most Endangered Places 2009, K-25, Manhattan Project, National Trust for Historic Preservation on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Speaking of the Manhattan Project—and because I badly need to restore some gravitas to this blog after that last stunt—check out the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of the 11 Most Endangered Places for 2009. This year’s list includes the Enola Gay hangar at Wendover, Utah.
A lot of other Manhattan Project sites are in [...]
