• The preparer of the nomination generally presents the nomination at the Landmarks Committee Meeting. Your NHL contact will provide you or your consultant with a PowerPoint template and instructions on what to include in your presentation. You will need to submit a PowerPoint presentation, including a written script, to your NHL contact 60 days prior to the meeting for review and editing. NHL staff edit the presentations for content, consistency, and grammatical errors. If you cannot present the NHL nomination to the Landmarks Committee, NHL staff will present the property.

• Submit the presentations to our program via CD-ROM or memory stick via an alternate mail carrier, or through an internal ftp (file transfer protocol) site. Your NHL staff contact can provide you with instructions on how to access the ftp site. Presentations are typically too large to transmit via e-mail. Please assure that the presentation is copied and viewable before mailing it. Send your materials to: National Historic Landmarks Program, National Park Service, 1201 Eye Street NW (2280), 8th Floor, Washington, DC, 20005.

photograph by J. Stephen Conn via Flickr King Ranch, TX: In 1852, Richard King (1825-1885) purchased a Spanish land grant of 75,000 acres. Eventually the ranch grew to include over one million acres. Spreading over four south Texas counties, this is the largest ranch in the country. The famous Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle, named for the original Spanish land grant, was developed here.