In the early 1800s the Charlestown Navy Yard, later known as the Boston Navy Yard and Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of the busiest naval yards in the country, employing up to 500 mechanics, laborers, and others in the building, repairing, and equipping of vessels. A half century later, after the Civil War, the yard languished and was almost closed, until the Spanish-American War and World War I once again increased yard activity. In its peak years of production during World War II, the yard employed over 50,000 men and women, who worked at a 'frantic pace' to build, repair, and outfit ships for overseas. After the war, the strategic importance of the naval fleet waned, and in the 1970s, officials divided the yard into two parcels transferring one to the National Park Service (NPS) and the other to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). Today, the yard retains many historic buildings, structures, and landscape elements that reflect its 174-year role in the creation and growth of the U.S. Navy. The yard is designated a National Historical Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, though documentation has not been formally completed. Serving as home for the Navy's oldest commissioned warship, USS Constitution, the yard is a place to celebrate and explore United States maritime history. The purpose of this cultural landscape report is to thoroughly examine and document the physical development of the thirty-acre portion of the Charlestown Navy Yard that is owned and managed by the National Park Service.


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    Titel :

    Cultural Landscape Report for Charlestown Navy Yard


    Beteiligte:
    C. Stevens (Autor:in) / M. C. Brown (Autor:in) / R. Reedy (Autor:in) / P. Eleey (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2005


    Format / Umfang :

    293 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch