Resource

Cultural landscape report for Johnstown Flood National Memorial: national parks of Western Pennsylvania: Cambria County, Pennsylvania

Resource Type
Reports
Reference Title
Cultural landscape report for Johnstown Flood National Memorial: national parks of Western Pennsylvania: Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Author/Presenter
Hanna, Jennifer G.
Najera, Emelyn
Little, Kelsey
Foulds, H. Eliot
Organization/Agency
National Parks of Western Pennsylvania
Year
2021
Topic Location
Pennsylvania
Abstract/Additional Information

Organized into six chapters, beginning with a detailed site history tracing the landscape’s physical development. The history is followed by documentation of the landscape’s existing conditions and then an analysis and evaluation of the significance and integrity of the landscapes identified in the National Register of Historic Places documentation. The fourth chapter includes treatment recommendations to guide the rehabilitation of the historic lakebed and the properties associated with the national memorial’s period of significance. The fifth chapter provides a Record of Treatment for the National Park Service’s clearing of woody vegetation in the lakebed in 2019. Finally, the sixth chapter outlines a maintenance strategy for ongoing management of the lakebed’s low growing meadow and wetland vegetation.