Heritage Partnerships Program National Park Service Intermountain Region - Wyoming US Department of the Interior
Heritage Partnerships Program in Wyoming
The National Park Service is about more than just parks. The Heritage Partnerships Program of the NPS Intermountain Region helps community groups, local, state and federal agencies, tribal governments, nonprofits, and individuals identify, recognize and preserve national treasures that are located outside of our system of national parks.
The Heritage Partnerships Program (HPP) offers • Ames Monument and Hell Gap Paleoindian Site NHL a wide range of services that can be tailored nominations, Albany and Goshen counties – provided T to meet the needs of an individual project. technical assistance to the Wyoming State Historic Preservation NPS professional staff includes historians, historical Office to complete NHL nominations for Ames Monument, a architects, and archeologists who assist project leaders highly significant work of renowned architect Henry Hobson in the preservation of our Nation’s most significant Richardson; and Hell Gap Paleoindian Site, an archeological places. HPP helps communities and groups identify site that provides an almost continuous record of approximately nationally significant resources; prepare National Historic 4,500 years of Paleoindian subsistence economies. Landmark (NHL) nominations and historical reports; conduct archeological and architectural surveys; complete • Heart Mountain Root Cellar, Phase II: Emergency treatment plans for stabilization and repair; and create Stabilization, Park County – with a Japanese American planning and education materials. Confinement Sites grant, the Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation will stabilize the severely deteriorating root cellar HPP comprises several programs, including the National built at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, originally used Historic Landmarks; Historic American Buildings Survey by incarcerees to store produce. (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) • Shoshone Powerplant Digital Documentation and documentation programs; the National Heritage Areas Interpretive Film, Park County – provided technical assistance Program; Historic Surplus Property Program; and the to the Bureau of Reclamation and CyArk to digitally document Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. In the Shoshone hydroelectric powerplant using laser scanning, 2016, HPP supported a variety of projects in Wyoming, GPS, and high-definition photography, resulting in interactive including: 3D reconstruction, virtual tours of the site, and a short interpretive film.
Ames Monument was dedicated to brothers Oakes and Oliver Ames, Jr., financiers of the Union Pacific Railroad, Albany County, WY. Photo: NHL nomination.
For more information about the Heritage Partnerships Program, Christy Dickinson, Historian refer to: nps.gov/nhl/contact/imro.htm, or for information Office: (303) 987-6690 about ongoing or potential projects in Wyoming contact: [email protected] NaNationaltional H Historicistoric LandmarksLandmark s(NHL) (NHL) National Park Service NatUSion Departmental Park Serv ofic ethe Interior InIntermountaintermountain R Regionegion - Wyoming U.S. Department of the Interior Wyoming
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