Blair Mountain Petition for Lands Unsuitable Final with Exhibits.Pdf
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Exhibit A eM-No 10021 t0I PS Form 10-900 Oct 1990 RECEVEL_2280 United States Department of the Interior ationaI Park Service JAN 162009 ional Register of Historic Places NAT RE33 FHSTORC PLACES Registration Form NATIONAL PAFK SEflVICE Name of Property historic name Blair Mountain Battlefield other names/site number Spruce Fork Ridge of Blair Mountain Location Rt 17 at Blair and at Mill Creek not for publication street number Spruce Fork Ridge between Gap CR8 Gap vicinity city or town Logan code 045 zip code 25601 state West Virginia code WV county Logan State/Federal Agency Certification the National Historic Preservation as amended hereby certify that this nomination As the designated authority under Act in the National of Historic meets the documentation stan gistering properties Register request for determination ojeligibility 36 CFR Part 60 In the meets Places and meets the produral and profes ional requirement for in my opinion property criteri recommend at this be considered significant does not meet the NataI egister property for additional nationally ally continuati nsheet co7ments Date Signature of cert ing icial/Title Preservation West VirgIiia State Historic State or Federa agency and bureau the National criteria See Continuation sheet for additional In my opinion the property meets does not meet Register comments official/Title Date Signature of certifying State or Federal agency and bureau National Park Service Certification Date of Action is herby certify that the property Signatureofthe5eeper nteredintheNatflalRegi lr____ --.- determined eligible for the National Register sheet See continuation ___________________________________________________________________________________________ determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other explain __________________ AROO 182 Blair Mountain Battlefield Logan County \VV and State Jame of Property County Classification Iership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property private buildings Contributing Noncontributing El public-local district El public-State fl site buildings 16 sites public-Federal El structure object structures objects _____________________________________________ 16 Total Number of resources listed Name of related multiple property listing Contributing previously in the National Register N/A N/A Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions Defense Battlefield Landscape Natural Feature Description Architectural Classification Materials N/A foundation N/A walls N/A _____________________________________________________ roof N/A other N/A Narrative Description See Continuation Sheets AROO 183 WV Blair Mountain Battlefield Logan County County and State Statement of Significance of national icable National Register Criteria Levels Significance local state National associated with events that have made Property is the broad of Areas of significant contribution to patterns Significance our history Politics/Government Social is associated with the lives of History LI Property persons Other Labor History significant in our past Archaeology Historic Non-Aboriginal distinctive characteristics LI Property embodies the ______________________________________________________________ of type period or method of construction or ________________________________________________________ represents the work of master or possesses and high artistic values or represents significant lack Period of distinguishable entity whose components Significance individual distinction ________________________________________________________ 1921 to Property has yielded or is likely yield information important in prehistory or history Dates Criteria Considerations Significant August 31-September 1921 Property is for owned by religious institution or used __________________________________________________________ religious purposes Significant Person location LI removed from its original __________________________________________________________ N/A of historical of LI birthplace or grave figure outstanding Affiliation importance Cultural LI cemetery Appalachian LI reconstructed building object or structure ______________________________________________________________ LI commemorative property Architect/Builder achieved LI less than 50 years of age or significance N/A within the past 50 years Narrative Statement of Significance See Continuation sheets Major Bibliographical References Bibliography See Continuation Sheets location of additional data Previous documentation on file NPS Primary Office of individual State Historic Preservation LI preliminary determination listing 36 LI Other State CFR 67 has been requested Agency LI Federal LI previously listed in the National Register Agency the National LI Local Government Previously determined eligible by LI University Register Historic Landmark Other designated National Public Name of WVU Libraries Logan County Library LI recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey repository Public WV State Archives Kanawha County Library LI recorded by Historic American Engineering Record _______________________ AROO 184 Blair Mountain Battlefield Logan County WV and State Name of Property County 10 Geographical Data eage of Property Approximately 1668.25 UTM References See Continuation Sheets See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description See Continuation Sheets Boundary Justification See Continuation Sheets iLForm Prepared By Chad name/title Frank Unger Keimy King Harvard Ayers Ph.D Barbara Rasmussen Ph.D Proudfoot MA MPA MLIS Larry Sypolt MA date December 2008 organization Multiple street number Multiple telephone _____________________________ state code city or town zip perty Owner Itiple AROO 185 NPS Form 10-900 United States Department of the Interior Park Service ionaI TONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET West Blair Mountain Battlefield Logan County Virginia and State Name of Property County Section number Page LOCATION SETTING ten miles the The nominated site consists of approximately 1668 acres stretching approximately along West From the it extends from Mill Creek Gap crest of Spruce Fork Ridge in Logan County Virginia north and Blair at Whites Trace southward to Crooked Creek Gap Sycamore Creek Beech Creek Gap ending State Rt 17 The southeast Branch to the southeast The terrain is rugged and remote served only partially by is in Third District end of the site is located near the community of Blair and West Virginias Congressional with sandstone The topography of the area is characterized by steep mountains joined by spiny ridges Fork is an outcroppings and shale-clay based soils on 70 percent slopes Spruce Ridge undulating ridge foot from the south crest of Blair Mountain to Mill Creek approximately fifteen miles long when traveled by in elevation from feet at the head of the left fork of Beech Creek to Gap The peaks along the ridge vary 1809 of Pine Mountain The alluvial below are tightly etched by small height of 2045 feet at the twin peaks valleys andering streams the crest The Battle of Blair Mountain was fought between August 30 1921 September 1921 along Whites Trace Branch in the southeast to the Mill Creek Gap area in of Spruce Fork Ridge beginning at divides the River and the northwest Logan County The ridge is unique geographical barrier that Guyandotte This nomination includes Little Coal River watersheds running in southeast to northwesterly course between Chafins and the miners led section of this terrain encompassing the territory where encounters Army Workers of America took The line itself and the defensive by members of the United Mine place ridge established Sheriff Don Chafin of County Chafins positions on the upper slopes of the ridge were by Logan line the The nominated area forces were arrayed at strategic points linked by continuous sentry along ridge the miners selection of natural pathways was the location of the hostilities between the two groups reflecting Chafin line The of the region dictated the course of the up and over the ridge to breach topography confrontation and as such is extremely significant The miners assembled at the mouth of Lens Creek in Marmet in southern Kanawha County Gaining marched toward Coal to and Drawdy Creek They supporters as they advanced they Big River Peytona up Coal that stream into Danville and Madison At Madison continued up Rock Creek to Little River following Fork to the communities of and Blair where they established their march turned up Spruce Jeffrey Sharples the At the time of the battle little more bases in preparation for an assault on Chafins forces defending ridge Few had come to County Steep than dirt path was available for most of the march paved highways Logan characterized the area few farmers still held on to mountains narrow valleys and small coal company towns their small mountain lands small concrete block and Non-contributing elements on the south crest of Blair Mountain are building Crooked Creek within the Additionally there are rights metal shed Two modern gas wells at Gap are boundary AROO 186 NPS Form 10-900 United States Department of the Interior Park Service .fJonal IJ TIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Blair Mountain Battlefield Logan County West Virginia Name of Property County and State Section number Page lines and and remnants of an mine of way for telecommunications high voltage electric towers underground ventilation shaft at Whites Trace Branch The headwaters of Beech Creek have been compromised by coal within the mine operations