§410iii–11 Roles of Key Partner Organizations

Summary

The Secretary must recognize and support the groups that already own and run parts of the Park and let them keep helping manage it. The Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation may keep owning, running, and managing its Park lands, hold reenactments and events, and transfer land to the National Park Service by donation, sale, or other methods that follow NPS rules. The National Trust for Historic Preservation and Belle Grove Incorporated may keep owning and running Belle Grove Plantation, and Belle Grove Incorporated may keep Bowman’s Fort (Harmony Hall) to preserve it and try to open it to the public. Shenandoah County may keep running the Keister park site for public use. The Secretary must work with nearby towns Strasburg and Middletown and with Frederick, Shenandoah, and Warren counties. The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation may continue to manage the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District with the National Park Service under the District’s Management Plan.