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The Texas Historical Commission is an agency dedicated to historic preservation within the U.S. state of Texas. It administers the National Register of Historic Places for sites in Texas. The commission also identifies Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks (RTHL) and recognizes them with Official Texas Historical Marker (OTHM) medallions and ...
The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is a state governmental function created by the United States federal government in 1966 under Section 101 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). [1] The purposes of a SHPO include surveying and recognizing historic properties, reviewing nominations for properties to be included in the ...
Austin, Texas, U.S. Origins. March 2, 1897. Website. www.tshaonline.org /home. The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is an American nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, United States, on March 2, 1897. In November 2008, the TSHA moved its offices ...
San Jacinto Monument, La Porte. Fort Davis National Historic Site. Battleship Texas, La Porte. Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District. Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahía, Goliad. Dealey Plaza Historic District, Dallas. The Strand Historic District, Galveston. Lyndon Baines Johnson Boyhood Home, Johnson City. The Astrodome, Houston.
The act created the National Register of Historic Places, the list of National Historic Landmarks, and the State Historic Preservation Offices. Senate Bill 3035, the National Historic Preservation Act, was signed into law on October 15, 1966, and is the most far-reaching preservation legislation ever enacted in the United States.
George B. Hartzog Jr., director of the National Park Service from January 8, 1964, until December 31, 1972. [1]In April 1966, six months before the National Register of Historic Places was created, the National Park Service's history research programs had been centralized into the office of Robert M. Utley, NPS chief historian, in Washington, D.C., [2] as part of an overall plan dubbed ...
Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. A Tribal Historic Preservation Officer or THPO is an officer in U.S. federally recognized Native American tribes "to direct a program approved by the National Park Service and the THPO must have assumed some or all of the functions of State Historic Preservation Officers on Tribal lands." [1]
Every state has a Historic Preservation Office, as authorized under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. Pennsylvania’s didn’t get off the ground until the 1970s.