New Bedford MA is also a National Historical Park Park.
 
http://www.nps.gov/nebe/


Lisa Friedlander
Split Rock Studios

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Subject: Re: Preserving history without collections
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:34:26 -0500

>You might want to look at the National Park Service program 
>at “Rosie the Riveter, Home front” National Historic Park located 
>in Richmond California.  http://www.nps.gov/rori/
>
>The plan (the park is currently under development) is to have a 
>National Park staffed interpretive center, to interpret non-park 
>owned historic sites nearby related to the home front efforts 
>during WWII.  Sites include a portion of the former Kaiser ship 
>yard that produced Liberty and Victory ships, one Victory ship 
>(Red Oak Victory) a building used to prepare vehicles for 
>shipment overseas (site of the interpretive center) along with 
>housing developments, a hospital and a child care facility set up 
>to support the workers.
>
>I believe a similar plan is used by the NPS to interpret women’s 
>history, with information at 
>http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/index.htm
>
>Randy Hees
>Patterson House at Ardenwood Farm
>City of Fremont, CA

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