Virginia Main Street Communities was produced by the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development's Virginia Main Street Program, Virginia Department of Historic Resources and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers (NCSHPO). It was created under the direction of Carol D. Shull, Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, Patrick W. Andrus, Heritage Tourism Program Manager, and Beth L. Savage, Publications Managing Editor. Virginia Main Street Communities is based on information in the files of the National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks collections. The files are kept at 1201 Eye St., NW, Washington, D.C., and are open to the public. Some of the collection is online. The registration forms are also accessible online through the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Sarah Dillard Pope with the Virginia Main Street program conceptualized the itinerary. Courtney Anderson and Amy Yarich, program manager, also of Virginia Main Street, contributed written materials and editorial assistance. With contributions from Bryan Green of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, these two State offices provided written and photographic materials for the itinerary. Many site descriptions were excerpted from The Virginia Landmarks Register (4th edition, 1999), published by the University Press of Virginia, while most historic district descriptions were written by Sarah Dillard Pope. National Register web production team members included Jeff Joeckel, who designed the itinerary, Rustin Quaide and Shannon Bell (all of NCSHPO). Additional property descriptions were written by Rustin Quaide. Essays were written by Sarah Pope (Virginia Main Street); Scott Smith, Executive Director of Bedford Main Street, Inc. (Commercial Architecture in Virginia, Transportation and co-author of Agriculture and Industry); and Jay Harrison, Executive Director of Orange Downtown Alliance, Inc. (co-author of Agriculture and Industry). Carol Shull, Chief, Heritage Education Services, National Park Service oversaw an update of the content of the itinerary in 2009. Laura Cryan, student at George Mason University School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism; Leah Suhrstedt and Tamara Wolf, graduate students in Public History at American University; and Katie Ryan and Nissa Vandre, students at Ohio State University in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs Washington Academic Internship Program assisted with the update as part of their internship with Heritage Education Services. Jeffrey W. Sadler, Program Manager, Virginia Main Street, wrote a new welcome to the itinerary and Douglas Jackson of the Virginia Main Street staff updated several essays. The managers and staff of the Main Street programs in Abingdon, Altavista, and Blackstone were also helpful. |
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