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HISTORICAL

Historical resources is a term which encompasses prehistoric/historic archaeological sites and the built environment. The resources encompass historic sites, buildings, structures, objects, districts, and landscapes

Definition of Terms

Site:
Location of a significant event, a prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether standing, ruined, or vanished, where the location itself possesses historic, cultural, or archaeological value regardless of the value of any existing structure.

Building:
Those constructions created principally to shelter any form of human activity, or a historically and functionally related unit.

Structure:
Those functional constructions made usually for purposes other than creating human shelter.

Object:
Those constructions that are primarily artistic in nature or are relatively small in scale and simply constructed. Although it may be, by nature or design, movable, an object is associated with a specific setting or environment.

District:
A significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united historically or aesthetically by plan or physical environment.

Landscape:
A geographical area that historically has been used by people, or shaped or modified by human activity, occupancy, or intervention, and that possesses a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of areas of land use, vegetation, buildings and structures, roads and waterways, and natural features. National Register Bulletin 30, p.1-2).

Definition of terms (except landscape) excerpted from Instructions for Recording Historical Resources Office of Historic Preservation, January 1995.

Leigh Jordan
NWIC Coordinator

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