Search

Copies of minutes from meetings of the CNHP. Many missing. Since some of the subject matter covered in these minutes overlaps with other more specific topics, please see related series and the correspondence files.

Progress blueprints of the Colonial Parkway, undated but after 1935. Abstracts of land owned along parkway route. Letter about guard rail. 1938 "Report about Inscriptions for Parkway Marker" by Flickinger.

Correspondence and memos about the hurricane of 1933, visit of Governor Pollard and Fairfax Harrison, publications, expansion of park, research, slides and reports on "Development of the National Monument" and "Historical and Archival Projects under F.E. R. A." Correspondents include the Williamsburg Holding Corporation and G.G. Swem of the Library of Congress.

Topics include debris cleanup after the big storm; support by Kenneth Chorley of Williamsburg Holding Corporation; creation of a Business and Professional Association with representatives from Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, eventually named the "Williamsburg-Jamestown-Yorktown Associaion" with related discussion and conference on programs for school children and a committee on a joint pamphlet; building projects for Yorktown and the Yorktown area; Post Office building problems and a paper presented by Dr. Harold C. Bryant on birds.

Correspondence with historians and reports/memos about research for the Colonial National Historical Park.

1933 letter exchange between Walter J. Sparks to Mr. Demaray, Park Service, about importance of Green Springs. Memo from Robert Meade to Flickinger about the exposed ruins at Green Springs.

Typed versions of presentations given during tours of Yorktown. Some correspondence on guidebooks. Itineraries for various visitors to Yorktown.

Memos and outlines for activities of the Historical Division.

Typed drafts; memos about history; report by Edward M. Riley, "The History of the Development of Colonial National Historical Park;" flyer, map and newspaper articles.

Reports and research on archaeological work at Jamestown and Jamestown Island. Memos and minutes of meetings concerning the archaeological work and other related topics. Map of grids of archaeological investigation with proposed location of C.C.C. Camp. 2 photographs, possibly taken from an airplane.