Regionalism: Its Cultural Significance

Strong, Helen M.

doi:10.2307/140427

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“…The forested coastal and mountainous areas had very little agriculture but supported a large and significant timber and lumber industry. The inland valleys and lowlands, where most of the population concentrated, engaged in mixed farming, including livestock raising, a strong dairy-farming presence, and crop growing including both feed crops such as hay and oats, and a wide variety of fruits and vegetables (Strong 1936:403-404, Howard and Taylor 2011:4, McKnight 1992. Specialty crops including cranberries were grown in the region as well.…”

Section: Settlement Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…"Puget Sound area farmers who had surplus produce, dairy products and meat or livestock to sell found ready markets in the region's growing mining towns, particularly on the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains" (Howard and Taylor 2011:9). Supplying fruit, vegetables and dairy products to local towns and urban centers throughout the Northwest Region continued to grow as an important farming activity even as technology, developed in the Pacific Northwest, advanced to allow excess produce to be canned and packed for shipment to distant markets (Strong 1936:403, McKnight 1992. Market gardening was done in conjunction with other farming activities, and likely shared the same infrastructure in place for overall farming activities, such as granaries, fruit driers, and packing houses.…”

Section: Cottage Industriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Archival history of the site was conducted as part of the 1987 survey (Haynes and Bastian 1987). Despite the frequent transfers of title, the principle occupants of the site were John Sanders Cross (1905/1906 -early 1910s), Thomas Hughes (early 1910s -1923), Glen Watkins (1923-1936 and Tom Watkins (1936)(1937)(1938)(1939)(1940). After 1940 it is believed that the house was occupied by employees of the Watkins ranch.…”

Section: Historic Documentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nationwide context and evaluation methodology for farmstead and ranch historic sites and historic archaeological sites on DoD property

Baxter¹,

Enscore²,

Hartman³

et al. 2021

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The Army is tasked with managing the cultural resources on its lands. For installations that contain large numbers of historic farmsteads, meeting these requirements through traditional archaeological approaches entails large investments of personnel, time and organization capital. Through two previous projects, Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) cultural resource management personnel developed a methodology for efficiently identifying the best examples of historic farmstead sites, and also those sites that are least likely to be deemed eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. This report details testing the applicability of the methodology to regions across the country. Regional historic contexts were created to assist in the determination of “typical” farmsteads. The Farmstead/Ranch Eligibility Evaluation Form created by ERDC-CERL researchers was revised to reflect the broader geographic scope and the inclusion of ranches as a property type. The form was then used to test 29 sites at five military installations. The results of the fieldwork show this approach is applicable nationwide, and it can be used to quickly identify basic information about historic farmstead sites that can expedite determinations of eligibility to the National Register.

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Section: Settlement Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cottage Industriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historic Documentationmentioning

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Nationwide context and evaluation methodology for farmstead and ranch historic sites and historic archaeological sites on DoD property

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Enscore²,

Hartman³

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“…These may develop through some common social factors of the inhabitants of a region (Knight 1982). Examples along these lines have been proposed for the Southern US (Strong 1936;Dickinson 1967, p. 517) and for the French spontaneous-regionalism (Dickinson 1947, p. 259). Physical aspects of an area may contribute to the creation of a cultural region which may then develop without regard to changes in political boundaries.…”

Section: Regions: In Search Of a De$nitionmentioning

confidence: 99%