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Wayside Exhibit Plan National Park Service | Harpers Ferry Center | January 2024

Colonial National Historical Park F I N A L W A Y S I D E E X H I B I T P R O P O S A L v 3

Prepared by

Lyn Henley

Nikki O’Connor David Rickman

Tawnya Waggle Bradley Sutton

Project Team

Harpers Ferry Center

Contents

PROPOSAL VERSION

Introduction

Exhibit List

Exhibit Budget

Map of Wayside Locations

Individual Exhibits

Harpers Ferry CenterColonial National Historical Park

Colonial National Historical Park

Proposed Wayside Exhibits

LocationMaterial MountMaterial

January 2024

SubjectNo.

PANEL BASE

Description

In front of VC building36x48 double-sided upright In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum DS (144+ sq.

in)

Colonial National Historical Park Orientation101 B

Behind Visitor Center36x48 double-sided upright In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum DS (144+ sq.

in)Colonial National Historical Park Orientation102 B

Northwest side of bridge24x18 rail-adjacent sled base Sled BasePainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

in)

Perfect Pitch103

Southeast side of bridge24x18 rail-adjacent sled base Sled BasePainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

in)

Seek and Find104

Bridge pop-out closest to the obelisk

24x18 rail-adjacent sled base Sled BasePainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

in)

A Changing Landscape105

On the far side of tercentenary monument.

42x24 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

in)

Beyond the Fort106

Backstreet trail intersection by fence

42x24 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

in)

A Changing Community108

At the Great Road intersection.12x12 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (12x12)The Greate Road109

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BASE

Location

PANEL

Subject Material MountMaterialNo. Description

Trail by water’s edge.42x24 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

in)

Buried History110

At trail intersection at the lower middle of figure eight-shaped

42x24 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

in)

Down by the Waterfront111

At trail intersection at the lower middle of figure eight-shaped

12x12 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (12x12)Black walnut112

Near the end of water’s edge trail.

42x24 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

in)

Preserving History113

At Ambler Mansion.42x24 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

in)

The Force Behind the Facade116

Opposite Ambler Mansion.12x12 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (12x12)Oak117

End of Back Street12x12 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (12x12)American Sycamore118

End of the Rowhouse12x12 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (12x12)Rowhouse Jail119

First rowhouse12x12 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (12x12)Bacon’s Rebellion120

BASE

Location

PANEL

Subject Material MountMaterialNo. Description

Before row house.42x24 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

in)

Seeking a Return on Investment121

Loblolly Pine tree near Industrial signs

12x12 low profile In-GroundPainted Aluminum

Aluminum SS (12x12)Loblolly pine122

07 08

17 16

MAP OF WAYSIDE LOCATIONS ON JAMESTOWN ISLAND

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101 B

To explain the breadth of Colonial National Historical Park through a map and teaser images of key sites, including JamestownIsland, Yorktown Battlefield, the Jamestown glasshouse, and the Colonial Parkway that connects them. To introduce the Captain John Smith Chesapeake NHT that links the park to other points of interest.

Colonial National Historical Park Orientation 36 x 48

101B

ThumbnailSizeEx. No./Subject/Purpose

P A N E L

Location Base Drawing

37.211495

Lon:

Lat:

Orientation

In front of VC building

Under street light along sidewalk.

-76.777130

Material Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

• Map.

• Photos depicting Jamestown, Yorktown, the glasshouse, Colonial Parkway, and the Captain John Smith Chesapeake NHT

• Logo of Captain John Smith Chesapeake NHT

B

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Map

• Existing Photograph

• Existing Art

36x48 double-sided upright Painted Aluminum

Material

Mount In-Ground

NPS Dark Brown

Color

This location will require removal of bushes and installation of a new concrete pad.

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 2Title 3

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Description

Panel DetailsP A N E L D E T A I L S

B A S E D E T A I L S

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102 B

To explain the breadth of Colonial National Historical Park through a map and teaser images of key sites, including Jamestown Island, Yorktown Battlefield, the Jamestown glasshouse, and the Colonial Parkway that connects them. To introduce the Captain John Smith Chesapeake NHT that links the park to other points of interest. (Duplicate of 101B with different "You Are Here.")

Colonial National Historical Park Orientation 36 x 48

102B

ThumbnailSizeEx. No./Subject/Purpose

P A N E L

Location Base Drawing

37.211055

Lon:

Lat:

Orientation

Behind Visitor Center

Along path/sidewalk, before the foot bridge.

-76.777192

Material Aluminum SS (144+ sq.

• Map.

• Photos depicting Jamestown, Yorktown, the glasshouse, Colonial Parkway, and the Captain John Smith Chesapeake NHT

• Logo of Captain John Smith Chesapeake NHT

B

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Map

• Existing Photograph

• Existing Art

36x48 double-sided upright Painted Aluminum

Material

Mount In-Ground

NPS Dark Brown

Color

This location will require installation of a new concrete pad, and repositioning of nearby benches to optimize flow in and around the exhibit.

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 2Title 3

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Description

Panel DetailsP A N E L D E T A I L S

B A S E D E T A I L S

Notes Additions

P A N E L

B A S E

T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To reveal how pine trees (in view) were historically cut and processed to create pitch and tar that was used, along with rope, to seal the hulls of wooden ships. To explain why this industry was so important for the development of Jamestown.

Graphics Illustration of historic tar-making

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Northwest side of bridge

1/3 way down

Orientation:

Lat: 37.210205 Lon: -76.777305

Additions

Size: 24 x 18 Material: Aluminum SS (144+ sq. in)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount Sled Base

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

24x18 rail-adjacent sled base

Site Preparation

Base shall be bolted to the deck using the sled base drilled holes.

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Perfect Pitch

Title 2

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To help visitors identify animals which may be found in view, reveal creatures that may be out of sight or only heard (possibly including mosquitoes), and note that habitats are quickly changing in response to climate change. To encourage visitors to listen to the soundscapes on Jamestown Island.

Graphics

• Photos of painted turtle, spring peeper frog, white-tailed deer, and eagle or osprey.

• Tactile of small painted turtle.

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Southeast side of bridge

3/4 way down

Orientation:

Lat: 37.209788 Lon: -76.777563

Additions

Size: 24 x 18 Material: Aluminum SS (144+ sq. in)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount Sled Base

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

24x18 rail-adjacent sled base

Site Preparation

Base shall be bolted to the deck using the sled base drilled holes.

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Seek and Find

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To show moderate projections for rising floodwater levels (swamp floodwaters in view) around the island—comparing 2020 statistics with 2060 and 2100. To reveal how these projections are impacting endangered species (such as salamanders), prompting habitat migration, and driving planning and preservation priorities at Jamestown.

Graphics Maps of projected rising floodwaters (for 2020, 2040, 2100)

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Bridge pop-out closest to the obelisk

Orientation:

Lat: 37.209655 Lon: -76.777572

Additions

Size: 24 x 18 Material: Aluminum SS (144+ sq. in)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount Sled Base

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

24x18 rail-adjacent sled base

Site Preparation

Base shall be bolted to the deck using the sled base drilled holes. Bench will need to be relocated from its current position.

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: A Changing Landscape

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To show, through an illustrated aerial view, how Jamestown’s New Town looked in the 1660s, including a “ghosted” view of Fort James, which was no longer there. To provide an orientation to the NPS side of the Jamestown site, and inspire visitors to explore it further.

Graphics Illustrated map with angled aerial view of Jamestown’s New Town in the 1660s

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

On the far side of tercentenary monument.

At the path intersection.

Orientation:

Lat: 37.208650 Lon: -76.777642

Additions

Size: 42 x 24 Material: Aluminum SS (144+ sq. in)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

42x24 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Beyond the Fort

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To reveal an eye-level view (from visitor’s location) showing how Jamestown’s New Town looked around 1640 and what life and interactions were like within the changing community of enslaved African Americans, native peoples, and colonists who lived in or near the town.

Graphics

• Art to include enslaved African men building a brick structure and a woman with child carrying laundry, Indigenous people passing through and observing, and a colonist on horseback, passing through.

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Backstreet trail intersection by fence

Orientation:

Lat: 37.208317 Lon: -76.777655

Additions

Size: 42 x 24 Material: Aluminum SS (144+ sq. in)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

42x24 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: A Changing Community

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To identify the location (in view) of what was once the “Greate Road” and to reveal how it evolved from an Indigenous peoples’ hunting road to a corridor for trade and transportation.

Graphics

• Art of colonist travelers/traders on road. +Poss.

• Existing historic map marked up to show Great Road

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

At the Great Road intersection.

Orientation:

Lat: Lon:

Additions

Size: 12 x 12 Material: Aluminum SS (12x12)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

12x12 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: The Greate Road

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To reveal artifacts that were uncovered at this archaeological site, which was later re-covered for preservation and marked with recreated foundation stones (in view).

Graphics

• Photo of CCC workers excavating

• Tactile of pipe or pipe frgament

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Trail by water’s edge.

Facing re-created foundations

Orientation:

Lat: 37.207480 Lon: -76.776475

Additions

Size: 42 x 24 Material: Aluminum SS (144+ sq. in)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

42x24 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Buried History

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To reveal what the riverfront looked like in its heyday during the ____’s, and explain why these shores have always been valuable, providing easy transportation, a food source, a deep port for large vessels, and a defensible location.

Graphics

• Art of New Town shoreline from POV of merchant sailing ship

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

At trail intersection at the lower middle of figure eight-shaped trail system.

Orientation:

Lat: 37.207122 Lon: -76.775545

Additions

Size: 42 x 36 Material: Aluminum SS (144+ sq. in)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

42x24 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Down by the Waterfront

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To reveal what the black walnut tree leaf and nut (in view, in season) look like, and to describe traditional uses by Indigenous peoples, enslaved peoples, and/or colonists.

Graphics

• Photo or line art of leaf and possibly nut

• Tactile of nut stone (per Archaeareum) with 1/2 a black walnut in it.

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

At trail intersection at the lower middle of figure eight-shaped trail system.

Facing black walnut tree.

Orientation:

Lat: 37.207163 Lon: -76.775658

Additions

Size: 12 x 12 Material: Aluminum SS (12x12)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

12x12 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Black walnut

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To explain why nothing is visible here—how buildings that once existed decayed, were covered with soil, exposed by CCC workers and archaeologists, studied, and finally reburied to protect the remnants of the foundations. To reveal how some artifacts discovered in the process were documented and preserved.

Graphics

• Photo of African American CCC workers cleaning artifacts

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Near the end of water’s edge trail.

Facing Civil War site

Orientation:

Lat: 37.206755 Lon: -76.774850

Additions

Size: 42 x 24 Material: Aluminum SS (144+ sq. in)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

42x24 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Preserving History

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To explain how enslaved people’s forced labor on surrounding tobacco plantations created the wealth reflected in the mansion in view. To reveal how they resisted enslavement by preserving their cultural ways in the privacy of their quarters (site in view) and eventually revolted and set the mansion on fire during the Civil War.

Graphics

• Art of enslaved African American workers celebrating outside of their quarters.

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

At Ambler Mansion.

On the right side of mansion, facing toward quarters for enslaved peoples.

Orientation:

Lat: 37.207592 Lon: -76.774680

Additions

Size: 42 x 36 Material: Aluminum SS (144+ sq. in)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

42x24 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: The Force Behind the Facade

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To reveal the leaf and acorn of the oak tree (in view, in season) and describe traditional uses by Indigenous peoples, enslaved peoples, and/or colonists.

Graphics

• Photo or line art of leaf

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Opposite Ambler Mansion.

Facing oak tree in distance.

Orientation:

Lat: 37.207650 Lon: -76.774842

Additions

Size: 12 x 12 Material: Aluminum SS (12x12)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

12x12 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Oak

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To show the leaf and seed of the sycamore tree (in view, in season) and describe traditional uses by Indigenous peoples, enslaved peoples, and/or colonists.

Graphics

• Photo or line art of leaf

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

End of Back Street

Orientation:

Lat: 37.208470 Lon: -76.777472

Additions

Size: 12 x 12 Material: Aluminum SS (12x12)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

12x12 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: American Sycamore

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To reveal that this structure at the end of the rowhouse (brick foundation in view) once served as a jail.

Graphics

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

End of the Rowhouse

Former jailhouse.

Orientation:

Lat: 37.208492 Lon: -76.775588

Additions

Size: 12 x 12 Material: Aluminum SS (12x12)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

12x12 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Rowhouse Jail

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To explain that a rowhouse (brick foundation in view) was once built here through a town act, but was later burned down in 1676 during Bacon’s Rebellion, a conflict between Nathaniel Bacon and Colonial Governor Sir William Berkeley.

Graphics

• Art of Bacon’s Rebellion

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

First rowhouse

Orientation:

Lat: 37.208637 Lon: -76.775955

Additions

Size: 12 x 12 Material: Aluminum SS (12x12)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

12x12 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Bacon’s Rebellion

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To provide an overview of the Town Act that led to the industrialization of Jamestown in the 1630s (including timber/shipbuilding, tobacco and winemaking) while Sir James Harvey was Governor of Virginia (site of his house and his sponsored enterprises—and their accompanying modern wayside exhibits—are in view, down a loop trail). To inspire visitors to follow the loop trail and learn more about each industry.

Graphics

• Art of industrious residents of Jamestown at work.

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Before row house.

In between loop entrance trails to the three industrial panels on Governor’s property.

Orientation:

Lat: 37.208747 Lon: -76.776567

Additions

Size: 42 x 24 Material: Aluminum SS (144+ sq. in)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

42x24 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Seeking a Return on Investment

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T H U M B N A I L

Location

Purpose

To reveal the uses of the loblolly pine tree, native to Virginia, and describe traditional uses by Indigenous peoples, enslaved peoples, and/or colonists.

Graphics Loblolly pine

Maps

Notes

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Loblolly Pine tree near Industrial signs on loop lrail side closest to the obelisk.

Orientation:

Lat: 37.209247 Lon: -76.776497

Additions

Size: 12 x 12 Material: Aluminum SS (12x12)

Material Painted Aluminum

Mount In-Ground

Color NPS Dark Brown

Description

12x12 low profile

Site Preparation

Title 1 Title 3

Subject: Loblolly pine

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