Fort Stanwix National Monument: Reconstructing the Past and Partnering for the Future

by Zenzen, Joan M.

• ISBN13: 9780791474341
• ISBN10: 0791474348
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

This book looks at the history of Fort Stanwix and documents how the people of Rome, New York, Partnered with the National Park Service to create Fort Stanwix National Monument, a reconstrucied log-and-sod Revolutionary War fort located in the center of the city. Initially undertaken as Part of Rome's urban renewal effort to revive a failing economy through tourism, the fort's reconstruction exemplifies how a regional interest successfully engaged the National Park Service in achieving its goals.

Author Biography

Joan M. Zenzen is an independent scholar and the author of Battling for Manassas: The Fifty-Year Preservation Struggle at Manassas National Battlefield Park.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Commemoration	p. 13
Urban Renewal	p. 35
Reconstruction	p. 67
Celebration	p. 97
Holding Down the Fort	p. 129
Beyond the Pickets	p. 157
Reaching Out	p. 193
Appendixes
Fort Stanwix Act, Public Law No. 291	p. 225
Diagram of Fort Stanwix and Its Reconstructed Buildings	p. 227
Fort Stanwix National Monument Superintendents and Dates of Service	p. 229
Annual Visitation Numbers	p. 231
Annual Budget	p. 233
Notes	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 293
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