dc.contributor.author	Lewandowski, Bonny A.	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Clements, Terry L.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Kagawa, Ronald M.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Devitt, Patricia A.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Salmon, Richard G.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Fine, Elizabeth C.	en
dc.contributor.department	Landscape Architecture	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-14T20:51:41Z	en
dc.date.adate	1998-05-12	en
dc.date.available	2014-03-14T20:51:41Z	en
dc.date.issued	1998-04-24	en
dc.date.rdate	1998-05-12	en
dc.date.sdate	1998-04-24	en
dc.description.abstract	This thesis develops a philosophy for management, preservation, and interpretation of Woodlands Farm and Thomas's Wharf in Northampton County on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service methodology for historic properties, including cultural landscapes, is used to complete this study. The National Park Service method includes four interrelated steps: (1) historical research, and (2) inventory and documentation of existing conditions, (3) site analysis and evaluation of significance and integrity, and (4) recommendations for future management. Essential to the future of Woodlands Farm and Thomas's Wharf is continued use of the property while retaining character defining features that make them significant. The most suitable management philosophy for a historic property that allows for protection and maintenance of significant features, as well as future use and development, is Rehabilitation. Thomas's Wharf's significance is derived from fragments of many periods and histories can be read on the landscape; a palimpsest. The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service evaluates a landscape much as one evaluates a historic building, defining it as a type or from a specific time period. The U.S. Department of the Interior's criteria for significance does not address a landscape, like Thomas's Wharf, as part of the continuum of history. Rather the study of landscapes is limited and the criteria does not acknowledge a site's broader continuum of significance. Landscapes that are records of change and evolution, palimpsests of a people, culture, and place, need to be identified and deemed significant for that quality.	en
dc.description.degree	Master of Landscape Architecture	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-4898-135420	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-4898-135420/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36751	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.haspart	page.PDF	en
dc.relation.haspart	abstract.PDF	en
dc.relation.haspart	table.PDF	en
dc.relation.haspart	cha1.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	cha2.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	cha3.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	cha4.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	cha5.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	cha6.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	cha7.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	cha8.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	vita.PDF	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Eastern Shore of Virginia	en
dc.subject	cultural landscape	en
dc.subject	landscape architecture	en
dc.title	Landscape in Peril: A Cultural Assessment of Thomas's Wharf and Woodlands Farm, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia	en
dc.type	Thesis	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Landscape Architecture	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	masters	en
thesis.degree.name	Master of Landscape Architecture	en

Landscape in Peril: A Cultural Assessment of Thomas's Wharf and Woodlands Farm, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia

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