Posts belonging to Category 'NPS'
December 13, 2010 | Posted by javal
Rededication of the Vicksburg National Military Park’s lone surviving structure that dates to the Civil War is on pace for the spring.
Meanwhile, a long-range plan to re-create some of the park’s 1860s landscape is under way and awaits funding.
Shirley House renovations begun earlier this year to spruce up the nearly 180-year-old structure are on schedule, [...]
Categories: NPS, Preservation | 
Tags: Mississippi | 
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December 9, 2010 | Posted by javal
Superintendent T. John Hillmer Jr. announced today upcoming holiday
operational hours and closures for Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield.
The battlefield will be closed at 12 p.m. (Noon) on December 24 and all day
on Christmas Day, December 25, 2010, and New Year’s Day, January 1, 2011,
in observance of the national holidays. The closure includes the visitor
center, tour road [...]
Categories: NPS | Tags: Missouri | No Comments »
December 6, 2010 | Posted by javal
Though the sun claws through the trees and reaches the ground below, it’s cold in Stones River National Cemetery off Old Nashville Highway. A chilly wind whips through the leaves of garnet and gold and rustles across the historic battlefield across the street like the ghost of a Civil War soldier who fought on those [...]
Categories: Event, NPS | Tags: Tennessee | No Comments »
December 1, 2010 | Posted by javal
Almost 150 years ago, Confederate troops in South Carolina fired the first shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter, leading to the bloodiest period in American history. Today Fort Sumter National Monument is taking the first shot at ushering in a new era of energy independence through collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy [...]
Categories: General, NPS | Tags: South Carolina | No Comments »
November 2, 2010 | Posted by javal
Soon after John Howard became superintendent of Antietam National Battlefield during the summer of 1995, he said he was living a dream.
“It’s still a dream come true,” Howard said Monday, sitting in his office at Antietam National Cemetery.
As a “young buck ranger” 37 years ago, Howard never dreamed he’d one day oversee one of the [...]
Categories: NPS | Tags: Maryland | 1 Comment »
October 29, 2010 | Posted by javal
Gettysburg National Military Park will temporarily close selected roads
during the next few days for a repaving project. The scheduled road
closures are short term and may change, depending on weather.
On October 29, United States Avenue, Sedgwick Avenue, and Hancock Avenue
from United States Avenue to Pleasonton Avenue will be closed all day for
paving.
On November 1, Hancock Avenue [...]
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October 28, 2010 | Posted by javal
In response to the threat of White-nose Syndrome (WNS) spreading to its
bat populations, Acting Superintendent Pat Kenney has issued a temporary
closure of all caves within the boundary of the Chickamauga and
Chattanooga National Military Park.
White-nose Syndrome (WNS) is an emerging disease that is causing
unprecedented mortality in several species of hibernating bats. [...]
Categories: NPS | Tags: Georgia, Tennessee | No Comments »
October 26, 2010 | Posted by javal
Gettysburg National Military Park will temporarily close selected roads
during the next week for a repaving project. The scheduled road closures
are short term and may change, depending on weather.
On October 28, United States Avenue, Sedgwick Avenue, and Hancock Avenue
from United States Avenue to Pleasonton Avenue will be closed all day for
paving.
On October 29, Hancock Avenue from [...]
Categories: Gettysburg, NPS | Tags: Gettysburg | No Comments »
October 22, 2010 | Posted by javal
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park announces the temporary
closure of the Mountain Beautiful Trail to complete a construction project initiated
earlier this year. The trail will be closed on Monday, October 25, 2010, and is expected to be
re-opened on November 30, 2010. The Mountain Beautiful Trail is located on the east side of
Lookout Mountain, above the [...]
Categories: NPS | Tags: Tennessee | No Comments »
October 19, 2010 | Posted by javal
In much of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, the landscape looks old. But its interpretation is getting pretty newfangled.
The park, steward of four major Civil War battlefields, has been hard at work over the past decade to improve how it presents itself to the public. While there’s still work to do, its publications, exhibits, [...]
Categories: NPS | Tags: Virginia | No Comments »
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