List of threatened historic sites in the United States

List of threatened historic sites in the United States

This article provides a List of threatened historic sites in the United States. A site is deemed historic if it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places or an official State or Local landmark list. While there are many historic places in the U.S. that are not listed in an official government listing of landmarks, the purpose of this article is to report threats only to government-listed landmarks. A site is deemed threatened for this article if there is verifiable information that it is threatened. Documentation may include:
*credible reports in publications, including news articles
*listing on various watch organizations' lists

United States sites which are both historic and threatened

*Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana were heavily damaged in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. They are forts that were battlegrounds in the American Civil War and are National Historic Landmarks. Both are listed by the Civil War Preservation Trust in 2006 as among the Top 10 Endangered Civil War Battlefields.cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=260&ResourceType=Building
title=Fort Jackson |accessdate=2008-02-01|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service] cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=261&ResourceType=Structure
title=Fort St. Philip |accessdate=2008-02-01|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]

*Great Falls Portage, a National Historic Landmark site in Montana is threatened by an electric power generating station. [The National Park Service reports "A draft Environmental Impact Statement has been released for the Highwood Generating Station. The station is a 250-megawatt, Circulating Fluidized Bed, coal-fired power plant with 6-megawatt of wind generation. Sections of the water intake and wastewater lines, overhead electric transmission lines, and the rail spur are proposed to be constructed within the NHL boundaries. Because this NHL’s integrity is based on visual landscape qualities, the facilities planned present a high likelihood of negatively impacting the significant historic scene."] cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=298&ResourceType=District
title=Great Falls Portage |accessdate=2007-10-24|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]

*Top 10 Endangered Battlefields in 2005 [ [http://www.civilwarnews.com/archive/articles/endangered_battlefields.htm "Civil War Preservation Trust Lists Endangered Battlefields", by Deborah Fitts,April 2005] ]

*The upper post area of Fort Snelling, a National Historic Landmark in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, is listed with a threat level of "emergency" by the National Historic Landmarks Program and was named as one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. While the original fort buildings dating back to the 1820s have been reconstructed and are operated as a historic site by the Minnesota Historical Society, newer buildings built after the 1880s are deteriorating rapidly. [cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=278&ResourceType=District|title=National Historic Landmarks Program: Fort Snelling|accessdate=2008-02-16] cite web|url=http://www.mnhs.org/about/publications/planner/summer2006.pdf|title=Minnesota Preservation Planner: Summer 2006|date=2006|accessdate=2008-02-16]

Organizations which note threatened status

*National Park Service of the United States monitors the status of National Historic Landmark sites, many of which are privately owned
*World Monuments Fund covers a top 100 list world-wide, several of which in the United States. For example, following Hurricane Katrina, it lists New Orleans as a whole, which includes many NRHP sites. Of the NRHPs in New Orleans, some in low-lying areas were damaged by Katrina and remain threatened while others in the French Quarter and elsewhere were not and are not.
*Civil War Preservation Trust
*The Northwest Georgia Threatened Historic Sites Project identified 19 threatened historic sites in Georgia, some of which may be NRHPs.
*National Trust for Historic Preservation lists America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.

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