ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This bulletin was prepared by Patrick W. Andrus, Historian, National Register of Historic Places. The author gratefully acknowledges the invaluable assistance of John Knoerl, Director, Cultural Resources Geographic Information Systems Facility, and Dale Floyd, Historian, the American Battlefield Protection Program. The author is also indebted to other colleagues in the cultural resources programs of the National Park Service. These include Lawrence E. Aten, Chief, Interagency Resources Division; Carol D. Shull, Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places, Interagency Resources Division; de Teel Patterson Tiller, Chief, Preservation Planning Branch, Interagency Resources Division; and Edwin C. Bearss, Chief Historian, National Park Service; staff of the Interagency Resources Division, including Beth Savage, Toni Lee, Marilyn Harper, Diane Miller, Patty Chrisman, Jan Townsend, and Stephen Morris; Marilyn Nickels, and Maureen Foster of the American Battlefield Protection Program; Jean Travers and Michael Auer of the Preservation Assistance Division; James N. Haskett, Colonial National Historical Park; Jock Whitworth, Big Hole National Battlefield; Paul L. Hedren, Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site; Jerry A. Eubanks, Gulf Islands National Seashore; Kenneth E. Apschnikat, Manassas National Battlefield Park; Cecil McKeithan and Kirk Cordell of the Southeast Regional Office; Brook Blades of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office; and Julie Corona, Rocky Mountain Regional Office. Significant contributions were also made by Bill Houston, Office of Territorial and International Affairs; Hugh C. Miller, Director, Virginia Department of Historic Resources; James E. Jacobsen, State Historical Society of Iowa; Elsa Gilbertson, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation; Jay C. Ziemann, Arizona Office of Historic Preservation; David Brook, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Kathryn B. Eckert, Michigan Bureau of History; Chere Jiusto, Montana Historical Society; Nancy Miller, National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, and Samuel D. Sn-dth, Tennessee Division of Archaeology.

This publication has been prepared pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, which directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop and make available information concerning historic properties.

The bulletin was developed under the general editorship of Carol D. Shull, Keeper, National Register of Historic Places.