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Photo, Print, Drawing Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

[ Photos from Survey HAER MS-14  ]

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About this Item

Title

  • Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

Names

  • Historic American Engineering Record, creator
  • U.S. Department of War
  • Grant, Ulysses S.
  • Sherman, William T.
  • McPherson, James B.
  • McClernand, John A.
  • Pemberton, John C.
  • Merry, John F.
  • Vicksburg National Military Park Association
  • Rigby, William T.
  • A & V Railroad
  • Nicholson, Robert
  • Penn Bridge Company
  • Crafts, George H.
  • Young, William T.
  • Virginia Bridge & Iron Company
  • W C Craig & Company
  • Fife, Charles H.
  • Betts, R. D.
  • Betts, Edward Everett
  • Crass, J. T.
  • Claggett, Z. S.
  • Southwest Wrecking, Inc.
  • U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
  • Keliher Construction Company
  • Brooks, Pete, field team supervisor
  • Croteau, Todd A., project manager
  • Davis, Tim, project manager
  • James, Deborah, field team
  • Seale, Gregory, field team
  • Jones, Courtney, historian
  • Faust, William A., II, photographer

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1968

Headings

  • -  roads
  • -  bridges
  • -  war (Civil War)
  • -  transportation
  • -  asphalt pavements
  • -  automobiles
  • -  kiosks
  • -  parking lots
  • -  visitors' centers
  • -  cannons
  • -  National military parks
  • -  monuments & memorials
  • -  brick walls
  • -  gutters (roadside elements)
  • -  concrete abutments
  • -  signage
  • -  gates
  • -  girder bridges
  • -  cemeteries
  • -  culverts
  • -  drains
  • -  ranger stations
  • -  public works
  • -  Civilian Conservation Corps
  • -  Works Progress Administration
  • -  "Mission 66" program
  • -  Mississippi--Warren County--Vicksburg

Notes

  • -  Significance: The Vicksburg National Military Park tour roads provide access to areas of interest in the park, which commemorates and interprets the siege and defense of Vicksburg in 1863 during the Civil War. The tour route through Vicksburg National Military Park was designed primarily for vehicular traffic. The roads and bridges in the park are integral aspects of the commemorative landscape of the battlefield. The road-related structures in this park are significant both for their individual structural designs and their functional unity as part of a tour system. Initial construction of the basic road system took place during the early 1900s and was followed by a period of improvements, additions, and deletions by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. An additional period of improvement work was accomplished in the 1960s as part of Mission 66.
  • -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N480
  • -  Survey number: HAER MS-14
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1902-1913 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1933-1939 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1956-1980 Subsequent Work
  • -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000100

Medium

  • Photo(s): 48
  • Color Transparencies: 8
  • Measured Drawing(s): 7
  • Data Page(s): 55
  • Photo Caption Page(s): 6

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HAER MISS,75-VICK.V,6-

Source Collection

  • Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • ms0317

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Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, U.S. Department Of War, Ulysses S Grant, William T Sherman, James B McPherson, John A McClernand, John C Pemberton, et al., Faust, William A., Ii, photographer. Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS. Mississippi Vicksburg Warren County, 1968. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/ms0317/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, C., U.S. Department Of War, Grant, U. S., Sherman, W. T., McPherson, J. B., McClernand, J. A. [...] Jones, C., Faust, W. A., photographer. (1968) Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS. Mississippi Vicksburg Warren County, 1968. Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ms0317/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, et al., photographer by Faust, William A., Ii. Vicksburg National Military Park Roads & Bridges, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ms0317/>.