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Barry Mackintosh Park History Program National Park Service
GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL PARKWAY ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY Barry Mackintosh Park History Program National Park Service Department of the Interior Washington, DC 1996 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . 1 I. THE MOUNT VERNON MEMORIAL HIGHWAY • • • 7 II. THE CAPPER-CRAMTON ACT 21 III. EXPANDING THE PARKWAY, 1931-1952 • 33 IV. EXPANDING THE PARKWAY, 1952-1970 57 V. THE UNFINISHED PARKWAY. 87 VI. ARLINGTON HOUSE .•• . • 117 VII. THEODORE ROOSEVELT ISLAND . • 133 VIII. OTHER ADDITIONS AND SUBTRACTIONS • . • • . 147 Fort Hunt •.. • • . • • . • • . 147 Jones Point . • • . • • . • . • • . • • . • • • . 150 Dyke Marsh and Daingerfield Island . • • • . • • . • 153 Arlington Memorial Bridge, Memorial Drive, and Columbia Island • . • • • • • • . • • • • . • . • 164 The Nevius Tract • • . • . • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • 176 Merrywood and the Riverfront Above Chain Bridge • • • . 184 Fort Marcy . • • • • . • • • • . • • . • • • . 187 The Langley Tract and Turkey Run Farm • • • • . • • • 188 Glen Echo Park and Clara Barton National Historic site • 190 GWMP Loses Ground • • • . • • • • .. • . • • . • • • 197 INTRODUCTION The George Washington Memorial Parkway is among the most complex and unusual units of the national park system. The GWMP encompasses some 7,428 acres in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. For reasons that will later be explained, a small part of this acreage is not administered by its superintendent, and a greater amount of land formerly within GWMP now lies within another national park unit. Some of the GWMP acreage the superintendent administers is commonly known by other names, like Great Falls Park in Virginia and Glen Echo Park in Maryland. While most national park units may be characterized as predominantly natural, historical, or recreational, GWMP comprises such a diverse array of natural, historic, and recreational resources that it defies any such categorization. Further complicating matters, GWMP's superintendent also administers four other areas classed as discrete national park units-Arlington House, The Robert E. -
Rueckel, Hansen Named Vice Presidents Hansen Appointed Women's Dea.N to Take Command Proposes Plan of Physical Plant
Vol. LII, No. 11 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. Thursday, November 20, 1969 Rueckel, Hansen Named Vice Presidents Hansen Appointed Women's Dea.n To Take Command Proposes Plan Of Physical Plant The Rev. Robert J. Henle, S.J., For Self-Study President of the University, has Dr. Patricia Rueckel, appointed announced the appointment of vice president for student develop Chris A. Hansen as vice president ment, has announced an "institu for planning and physical plant, ef tional self-study" in the area of fective March 1, 1970. student development at George Hansen will succeed the Rev. T. town. The study will be conducted Byron Collins, S.J., who tendered during the second semester of this his resignation last spring with the academic year. condition that it not become effec Dr. Rueckel also discussed the tive until he had completed his possibility of a "reemployment of work on Public Law 90-457, which manpower" within the student de deals with federal aid to private velopment office in an effort "to be hospitals. more helpful to the students and In recent months, Edward Liber to Fr. Henle." atore has been handling physical plant administration while Fr. Col See page 11 for background lins has devoted himself to plan of Dr. Rueckel ning operations. That arrange A proposal for "differential ment will continue until Hansen room rates" for residents of re arrives in March. spective dormitories was also ad The next vice president comes vanced by Dr. Rueckel. to Georgetown from the federal She noted that all institutional government's Environmental Con Dr. -
Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc
MARCH 20, 1954 : A jpli 1 One of the surprises of the current record season has been the great strength which The Crows’ waxing of “Gee” has shown in the pop market. Originally a rhythm and blues hit, the disk has now taken off all over the country. Above The Crows sur- round George Goldner, president of the Rama label on which the record was issued, and Mona, Goldner’s assistant. Goldner also heads the Tico label on which he has another hit, “Baion” with Joe Loco. The 104-selection Wurlitzer 1500A not only leads the field in its ability to play either 45 or 78 RPM records— it is far out in front in earning power. Now availableqt slight extra cost, with Wurlitzer's extra- ^stimulating Hi-f idelity Sound System, this phono- iph oj^etfSTby far, thelbest investment and the highest ng record in phonograph history. SEE YOUR WSRLITZER DISTRIBUTOR 1500k The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company • North Tonawanda, N. Y. ” The (fash Bine FOUNDED BY BILL GERSH March 1954 20, Music Editorial Vol. XV Number 26 Publishers BILL GERSH JOE ORLECK The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. 26 West 47th Street, New York 36, N. Y. (All Phones: JUdson 6-2640) JOE ORLECK • CHICAGO OFFICE 32 West Randolph St., Chicago 1, 111. (All Phones: DEarborn 2-0045) BILL GERSH Karyl Long • LOS ANGELES OFFICE 6363 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Cal. (Phone: WEbster 1-1121) CARL TAFT • NASHVILLE OFFICE 417 Broadway, Nashville, Tenn. (Phone: NAshville 5-7031) CHARLIE LAMB 200.000. • LONDON OFFICE England 50.000. 17 Hilltop, London, N.W., fourth annual MOA (Music Since it is estimated that approximately MARCEL STELLMAN The • Operators of America) Convention was 000 pop records were sold last EXECUTIVE STAFF JOE ORLECK, Advertising Director a smashing success. -
Eden of the South a Chronology of Huntsville, Alabama 1805-2005
Eden of the South A Chronology of Huntsville, Alabama 1805-2005 Edited by: Ranee' G. Pruitt Eden of the South . begins with the discovery of a limestone spring by settler John Hunt. In just over a century and a half, the settlement named in his honor would make worldwide headlines for research and development, earning Huntsville the name, the Space Capital of the World. But our history did not stop there! This book takes readers back to the little known incidental moments uncovered from numerous sources, as well as the amazing details behind the big events, famous people, and, more importantly, the unsung heroes. Two hundred years, a brief snapshot in time, are remembered by the people of the time. Over 700 photographs capture moments and commit them to immortality. Tragedies and triumphs, thought to be long forgotten, are recorded in one fascinating book. The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library proudly offers this publication as a fitting birthday present to celebrate the first 200 years of Huntsville, Alabama, the Eden of the South. EDEN OF THE SOUTH A Chronology of Huntsville, Alabama 1 8 0 5 - 2 0 0 5 E dited by Ranee G. Pruitt Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Huntsville, Alabama ©2005 Huntsville-Madison County Public Library Huntsville, Alabama 35801 All Rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Layout design by: James H. Maples Cover artist: Dennis Waldrop Photographer: James Pruitt All photographs, unless otherwise noted, are from the collection of the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library ISBN: 0-9707368-2-7 Published by Huntsville-Madison County Public Library 915 M onroe St. -
Shaker Heights' Revolt Against Highways
Shaker Heights’ Revolt Against Highways Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degrees Master of Arts in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Megan Lenore Chew Graduate Program in History The Ohio State University 2009 Thesis Committee: William Childs, Advisor Paula Baker Kevin Boyle Copyright by Megan Chew 2009 Abstract This narrative details how highway building, environmentalism, race and class intersected in suburban Shaker Heights, Ohio, during the 1960s. The methodology combines local, environmental, political and social histories. While the city’s successful racial integration narrative has defined Shaker Heights, its class narrative is also significant. The unsuccessful attempts to build the Clark and Lee freeway through the eastern suburbs of Cleveland reveal important aspects of the class narrative and had national resonance, directly and indirectly connecting to important individuals and movements of the era. The success of the anti-freeway movement adds to Shaker’s atypical postwar social narrative. Part of a larger movement of freeway revolts, the Shaker Heights activists benefited from class advantages, political connections and the evolution of Interstate highway legislation since 1956. Activists benefited from built and natural environmental movements of the 1960s as well. In succeeding in preventing the highways, citizens managed to protect the suburb’s prewar character during an era of massive physical and social change. Rejecting an archetypal view of suburbs in the postwar era, this project stresses the importance of looking at the variability of actions, individuals and ideas within individual communities. Singular narratives of postwar ii suburbs, or of suburbs themselves, obscure these differences and prioritize certain narratives over others, including the narrative of this project. -
The Art of D.C. Politics: Broadsides, Banners, and Bumper Stickers
Washington History in the Classroom This article, © the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., is provided free of charge to educators, parents, and students engaged in remote learning activities. It has been chosen to complement the DC Public Schools curriculum during this time of sheltering at home in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Washington History magazine is an essential teaching tool,” says Bill Stevens, a D.C. public charter school teacher. “In the 19 years I’ve been teaching D.C. history to high school students, my scholars have used Washington History to investigate their neighborhoods, compete in National History Day, and write plays based on historical characters. They’ve grappled with concepts such as compensated emancipation, the 1919 riots, school integration, and the evolution of the built environment of Washington, D.C. I could not teach courses on Washington, D.C. Bill Stevens engages with his SEED Public Charter School history without Washington History.” students in the Historical Society’s Kiplinger Research Library, 2016. Washington History is the only scholarly journal devoted exclusively to the history of our nation’s capital. It succeeds the Records of the Columbia Historical Society, first published in 1897. Washington History is filled with scholarly articles, reviews, and a rich array of images and is written and edited by distinguished historians and journalists. Washington History authors explore D.C. from the earliest days of the city to 20 years ago, covering neighborhoods, heroes and she-roes, businesses, health, arts and culture, architecture, immigration, city planning, and compelling issues that unite us and divide us. -
Advance Publication Newsletter for Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development BOOKS DUE: JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL 2015 • VOLUME 25, NUMBER 1
PENGUIN GROUP (USA) Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development BOOKS DUE: JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL 2015 • VOLUME 25, NUMBER 1 “[A] chilling, assured debut….Even the most astute readers will be in for a shock as Hawkins slowly unspools the facts, exposing the harsh realities of love and obsession’s inescapable links to violence.”—Kirkus, starred review “The surprise-packed narratives hurtle toward a stunning climax, horrifying as a train wreck and just as riveting.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review SEE INSIDE FOR MORE TITLES COMING SOON FROM PENGUIN GROUP (USA)! PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 375 HUDSON STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10014-3657 PHONE (212) 366-2377 • FAX (212) 366-2933 WWW.PENGUIN.COM January 2015 Dear Librarian: Welcome to the Winter 2015 edition of PENGUIN GROUP (USA)’s Advance Publication Newsletter. This newsletter includes late-breaking reviews, news of award-winners, up-to-date price information, and book descriptions for January through April titles. We hope you will take some time to review the new books included here. As usual, the newsletter is divided into subject categories in order to route each section to your appropriate acquisitions and collection development specialists. Some highlights: • The inimitable Stewart O’Nan returns, bringing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s attempt at a second act as a Hollywood screenwriter vividly to life in West of Sunset (see Fiction). Fans of Gone Girl won’t want to miss Paula Hawkins’s Hitchcockian debut thriller The Girl on the Train (see Mysteries/Thrillers), while readers looking for a supernatural page-turner will love Simone St. -
Advanced Manufacturing SPECIAL ISSUE
www.dau.mil | July-August 2016 A PUBLICATION OF THE DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIVERSITY Advanced Manufacturing SPECIAL ISSUE Manufacturing Learning from the Past Keeping Track Innovation and to Plan for the Future of Horseshoe Nails Technological Restoring Manufacturing for Industrial Base Analysis Superiority National Security and Sustainment by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics From the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics CONTENTS Manufacturing Innovation and Technological Superiority 2 Frank Kendall 6 10 13 SPECIAL ISSUE: ADVANCED MANUFACTURING Learning From the Past to Plan Keeping Track of Horseshoe Nails Stitching Together the for the Future Industrial Base Analysis and “Digital Thread” Restoring Manufacturing for National Sustainment Jacob Goodwin Security Bradley K. Nelson One institute is charged with expanding A. Adele Ratcliff The central need for an adequate and the field of “digital manufacturing and The Department of Defense establishes reliable supply of critical warfighting mate- design,” or the creative use of data at eight Manufacturing Institutes to promote rials long before the outbreak of hostili- every stage of the manufacturing process emerging technologies and deliver new ties applies to both big-ticket items and to increase efficiency and speed while capabilities to the warfighter. simpler and more generic ones. cutting cost. 16 20 26 Manufacturing Technology Program When America Makes, The Breath of Life Bringing Innovation to the Warfighter -
Three Sisters Neutrality Set Pending 'University Forums' the Rev
Vol. LlI, No.9 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASmNGTON, D.C. Thursda.y, November 6, 1969 Three Sisters Neutrality Set Pending 'University Forums' The Rev. Robert J. Henle, S.J., University forums to study the cussions will be to assist "each in President of the University, has controversial question in detail. dividual and each appropriate or reaffirmed Georgetown's position In a recent open letter to all ganization" in reaching "reason of "neutrality" concerning the sectors of the University, Fr. able and personal decisions." Three Sisters Bridge issue. He Henle wrote that "it is neither In "making available a forum has, however, appointed Dr. James proper nor possible for me to com.: for full public disclosures of the Thomasson of the theology de mit the University as a corporate facts, for analysis and for full pub partment, to establish a series of entity to an institutional position lic disclosures of all the issues," on this issue." the President said that the "Uni The University President's state versity will thus be providing its ment met strong opposition from own members with adequate Reardon Wins student government leaders. Jim grounds for personal moral deci Clark, president of the under sions." Board Election graduate student body, said that In addition, Fr. Henle noted Fr. Henle's pronouncement "mis that, at present, he has no knowl sed the point of the issue." Vice edge concerning possible plans for In Close Race IJresident Mark Winston said that utilization of land "adjacent to or the statement "reaffirmed the belonging to Georgetown Univer Scott Reardon defeated three principle of neutrality which as it candidates in winning the elec sity." He said that he has re operates at Georgetown University, quested the Main Campus Plan tion for college academic repre is not neutrality at all." sentative to the updergraduate ning Committee to "give immedi student academic board. -
The Metro Revolt
The D.C. Freeway Revolt and the Coming of Metro Part 8 The Metro Revolt Table of Contents Advancing Metro ............................................................................................................................ 2 The Volpe Plan ............................................................................................................................... 5 The I-66 Problem in Virginia ........................................................................................................ 11 The New Delegate ......................................................................................................................... 20 Metro Funds .................................................................................................................................. 23 Three Sisters Bridge Design ......................................................................................................... 25 Fighting for Metro ......................................................................................................................... 26 Chairman Natcher Makes His Point ............................................................................................. 31 On the Eve of Revolt ..................................................................................................................... 37 Day of the Revolt .......................................................................................................................... 40 After the Revolution .................................................................................................................... -
The D.C. Freeway Revolt and the Coming of Metro Part 9 Post-Revolt
The D.C. Freeway Revolt and the Coming of Metro Part 10 The End of the Road Table of Contents Fighting Words ............................................................................................................................... 2 The Unusually Permanent End of the Road .................................................................................. 10 Metro vs. Metrobus ....................................................................................................................... 14 The New President ........................................................................................................................ 18 A New Era in the District .............................................................................................................. 19 Home Rule At Last ....................................................................................................................... 21 1974 Transitions............................................................................................................................ 25 Winding Down the Freeways ........................................................................................................ 28 Searching For a Metro Plan .......................................................................................................... 37 The Fading Freeways .................................................................................................................... 50 Completing the Center Leg Freeway ........................................................................................... -
Georgetown Students Jailed in Three Sisters Incidents
Vol. LII, No.7 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASmNGTON, D.C. Thursday, October 23, 1969 Georgetown Students Jailed In Three Sisters Incidents by George Pipkin turbance was marred by a severe of a 23-year-old graduate history Ninety-seven Georgetown stu beating by police of one under student at Georgetown, Matt An dents were arrested in two demon graduate, Phil Ptacin (ColI. '70), drea. With a small group of strations last week opposing the who was hospitalized. friends and community residents, construction of a bridge over the Andrea planned the camp-in and Potomac River on the Three Sisters See page 11 for an inside look the demonstrations. However, the Islands. at "The Bust" size and success of the demonstra Eight-nine University students The demonstrators were booked tions were greatly intensified by were among 141 Washington area at the Central Cell Block on In extensive media coverage which residents taken into custody dur diana Avenue for disorderly con has expanded the movement ing Wednesday, Oct. 15 demon duct charges and later released. against the bridge to citizens' and strations. Most of those booked chose to community groups. Eight more students were ar forfeit $10 bond rather than stand Arrests on Wednesday were rested Monday, while protesting at trial on the charges. first directed against those actu the construction site. That dis- ally stopping construction work Judicial procedures for those with their bodies. Soon, however, The controversy over the proposed construction of the Three Sisters arrested at the Three Sisters Is police from the Special Operations Bridge exploded again last week, climaxing in the arrest of 97 George lands were expedited by members Division began to pull in people town students.