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Historic Structures Assessment Report for the Muddy Run Pumped Storage Facility Project Relicensing Application Lancaster and York Counties, Pennsylvania Using the PHMC’s Cultural Resource GIS (CRGIS), TRC conducted a search for NRHP-listed and - eligible resources and previously surveyed structures. At the PHMC Archives in Harrisburg, TRC reviewed PHMC Historic Resource Survey Forms (HRSF) for all previously surveyed resources and CRM reports for previous surveys conducted in the Project APE. Within the Project APE, there are no NRHP-listed architectural resources or architectural resources determined NRHP-eligible by the PHMC. There have been no comprehensive architectural surveys conducted in Lancaster and York Counties since the 1980s. Due to the fact that these surveys occurred over 20 years ago, the existing data base is now out of date. There is one previously identified resource within the Project APE, the Ritchie-Robinson Property (PHMC ID #118594) at 1321 Lay Road, Peach Bottom Township, located at the southern end of the transmission line. FIELD SURVEY In October 2010-September 2011, TRC conducted a field survey of the Project APE to record all architectural resources 50 years or older. The Ritchie-Robinson property was resurveyed and the surrounding area was examined for the possibility of a rural historic district. Other than the previously identified Ritchie-Robinson property, there are no resources 50 years or older. As requested by the PHMC on July 13, 2011, TRC surveyed the Muddy Run facility and its components, noting all building features and taking digital photographs, in accordance with the new PHMC guidelines. EVALUATION CRITERIA The NRHP significance criteria in 36 CFR 60.4 define eligible cultural resources as buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts that have integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association and that meet one or more of the following criteria. Criterion D is most often, but not exclusively, used with archaeological resources. Criterion A: Association with events that have significantly contributed to the broad patterns of history; Criterion B: Association with persons significant in the past; Criterion C: Possession of distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction; exemplification of the work of a master architect, engineer, or artist; embodiment of high artistic values; or evidence of a significant and discernible entity whose components may lack distinction on their own; and Criterion D: Ability to yield information significant to prehistory or history. Ordinarily cemeteries, birthplaces, or graves of historical figures, properties owned by religious institutions or used for religious purposes, structures that have been moved from their original locations, reconstructed historic buildings, properties primarily commemorative in nature, and properties that have achieved significance within the past fifty years shall not be considered eligible for the National Register. However, such properties will qualify if they are integral parts of districts that do meet the criteria or if they fall within the following categories: Consideration A: A religious property deriving primary significance from architectural or artistic distinction or historical importance; or 6
Historic Structures Assessment Report for the Muddy Run Pumped Storage Facility Project Relicensing Application Lancaster and York Counties, Pennsylvania Consideration B: A building or structure removed from its original location but which is significant primarily for architectural value, or which is the surviving structure most importantly associated with a historic person or event; or Consideration C: A birthplace or grave of a historical figure of outstanding importance if there is no appropriate site or building directly associated with his or her productive life; or Consideration D: A cemetery which derives its primary significance from graves of persons of transcendent importance, from age, from distinctive design features, from association with historic events; or Consideration E: A reconstructed building when accurately executed in a suitable environment and presented in a dignified manner as part of a restoration master plan, and when no other building or structure with the same association has survived; or Consideration F: A property primarily commemorative in intent if design, age, tradition, or symbolic value has invested it with its own exceptional significance; or, Consideration G: A property achieving significance within the past 50 years if it is of exceptional importance. REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR PENNSYLVANIA: CRITERION A- AGRICULTURE As requested by PHMC, the Ritchie-Robinson Farm was re-evaluated utilizing the recently completed York-Adams County Diversified Field Crops, Cannery Crops, And Livestock, C. 1750-1960 Multiple Property Documentation Form (McMurry 2011). The NRHP eligibility with respect to agriculture in each Historic Agricultural Region of Pennsylvania will depend upon how well a given property reflects the historical farming system in that region. According to the Historic Agricultural Resources of Pennsylvania, c. 1700-1960: a National Register Multiple Property Documentation Form, Criterion A significance should be assessed in relation to how a given property typifies a farming system, not in relation to whether a property is exceptional or unusual. A property should exemplify a farming system in all its aspects. The totality of a property’s representation in the areas of production, labor patterns, land tenure, mechanization, and cultural traditions will determine its National Register eligibility (McMurry 2011: 119). A key characteristic of Pennsylvania agricultural production from settlement to about 1960 is diversification on small family farms. Therefore, a farmstead, farm, or historic agricultural district should reflect diversified agriculture through a variety in historic buildings and landscape features. It is critical to note that diversified agricultural production involves two facets: 1) a mix of products and 2) a variety in use for those products. Historic resources should reflect the variety of household and market strategies employed by farming families (McMurry 2011: 119). In addition, according to the registration requirements for the York-Adams Historic Agricultural Region, to be determined significant with respect to Criterion A for agriculture, a farmstead should either: 1) possess a strong representation of typical buildings and landscape features from one chronological phase of the region’s agricultural history, or 2) possess a strong representation of a range of typical buildings and landscape features that illustrate important changes over time in the region’s agricultural history. A historic agricultural district should have a more or less contiguous collection of farms representing these features (McMurry 2011: 118). Whether it depicts one chronological period or change over time, a farmstead will normally be significant under Criterion A only if: 1) its individual production system, for the period in question, reflects the average or above average production levels for its township in the same 7
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