from many disciplines in a narrative designed to serve managers, planners, interpreters, cultural resources specialists, and the interested public as a reference for the history of the region and the resources of the park. Derived from research in primary and secondary records relating to environmental history, land use, and commemoration of the lives of Abraham Lincoln and his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the study was designed to serve as a foundation for future research. The resulting document defined themes of area history, linked national, regional, and local events, and identified periods of significance associated with the Memorial's historic context.
The Lincoln Boyhood Home National Memorial Resource Study
In November 2000, HRA Gray & Pape, LLC. contracted with the National Park Service's Midwest Regional Office to prepare a Historic Resource Study of the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Spencer County, Indiana. Congress designated the Lincoln Boyhood site a National Memorial in 1962. The site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
HRA Gray & Pape historians produced the resource study after consulting with National Park staff, interviewing local informants, and conducting comprehensive background research. The results of this resource study are documented in HRA Gray & Pape's report The Evolution of a Sanctified Landscape: A Historic Resource Study of the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.
As a management tool, the historic resource study synthesized cultural resource information
