Fruitful Legacy: A Historic Context of Orchards in the United States, With Technical Information for Registering Orchards in the National Register of Historic Places

Introduction -- Purpose -- Background -- Four Periods In The History Of American Orchards -- A Historic Context Of Orchards In The United States -- Fruit Introduction And Colonization: 1600-1800 -- European Fruit Introductions, Subsistence Farm Orchards, And Fruit Gardens For Pleasure -- Summary -- Fruit Diversification And Migration: 1801-1880 -- American Fruit Varieties, Collectors, Connoisseurs And Entrepreneurs -- Orchard Specialization And Industrialization: 1881-1945 -- Commercialization, Scientific And Technological Development, And Regionalism -- Fruit Monoculture And Orchard Intensification: 1946-present -- Internationalism, Dwarf Trees, High Density Management Systems -- Technical Information For Registering Orchards In The National Register Of Historic Places -- Evaluating The Significance And Integrity Of Orchards And Fruit Trees -- Orchards And Fruit Trees As National Register Property Types -- Definition Of Orchard And Fruit Tree -- Defining The Significance Of Orchards And Fruit Trees -- Applying The National Register Criteria To Orchards And Fruit Trees -- Defining The Period Of Significance -- Defining Integrity -- Example Of Landscape Characteristics: Buckner Orchard, North Cascades National Park Service Complex, Washington -- Evaluating The Integrity Of Individually Significant Versus Contributing Orchards And Trees -- Integrity Of Rare Examples -- Examples Of National Registry Nominations -- Defining Boundaries -- Introducing Cultural Resource Management Of Orchards And Fruit Trees -- Further Information -- National Parks With Fruit Trees More Than Fifty Years Old -- List Of Repositories -- Relevant Organizations -- Glossary -- Bibliography. Susan A. Dolan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 212-222) And Index.