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NPS Form 10-900-a UB No. 1024-0018(1993)United States Department of the InteriorNational Park ServiceNational Register of Historic PlacesContinuation SheetSection number 8 Page 3 Name of Property Atlanta Ranger Station Historic DistrictCounty and StateAtlanta. Elmore County. Idaho____________During the New Deal period, all ten ranger districts on the Boise National Forest (and parts of theold Payette National Forest that merged with the Boise National Forest in 1944) were served byadministrative compounds constructed in whole or in part by CCC crews. Of those, Atlanta RangerStation is the best remaining example of a New Deal-era Forest Service ranger districtheadquarters. It represents administrative sites of the 1930-1950 period and reflects theorganization and mission of the agency. During the 1930s and 1940s, stations were usually staffedby a seasonal or year-round ranger and a seasonal assistant (Otis, 1986: 201). The Atlanta RangerStation housed a year-round ranger and his family and a seasonal assistant, characteristic of theForest Service during the period.Most district headquarters grew and evolved over the years, as the agency's mission expanded. Newbuildings were erected to accommodate larger staffs; old buildings were moved, converted, or eventorn down as they were no longer needed for their original purposes. Atlanta Ranger Stationescaped these changes because it had been "demoted." Dutch Creek Ranger Station became theAtlanta district headquarters around 1960, and funding for new construction and expansion flowedthere during the 1960s and 1970s. As a result, Atlanta Ranger Station retained nearly all of itshistoric buildings, without major character-altering exterior modifications. Thebuildings—excepting the gashouse—remain in their original positions, reflecting the orderly layoutof a New Deal-period administrative site. While the historic buildings have been preserved, nonon-historic buildings intrude upon the Station's historic character and scale. Historic photographs,building plans, and maps show the Station's original appearance and confirm that the site retains itshistorical integrity today. As the best surviving example of a standard-plan, Depression-era rangerstation on the Boise National Forest, Atlanta Ranger Station embodies "the distinctivecharacteristics of a type, period, or method of construction." Because of its links to the CivilianConservation Corps, which transformed the landscape of the public lands between 1933 and 1942,Atlanta Ranger Station "is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to thebroad patterns of our history." For these two compelling reasons, Atlanta Ranger Station deserveslisting on the National Register of Historic Places.
NPS Form 10-900-a UB No. 1024-0018(1993)United States Department of the InteriorNational Park ServiceNational Register of Historic PlacesContinuation SheetSection number 9 Page 1 Name of Property Atlanta Ranger Station Historic DistrictCounty and StateAtlanta. Elmore County. Idaho______BibliographyAlexander, Thomas G. The Rise of Multiple Use Management in theIntermountain West: A History of Region Four of the ForestService. FS-399. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government PrintingOffice, 1987.Attebery, Jennifer Eastman. Building Idaho: An ArchitecturalHistory. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1991.Otis, Alison, William Honey, Thomas Hogg, and Kimberly Lakin.The Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps-19331942. FS-395. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government PrintingOffice, 1986.Schwantes, Carlos. In Mountain Shadows: A History of Idaho.Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.Smith, Elizabeth M. History of the Boise National Forest 1905-1976. Boise: Idaho State Historical Society, 1983.USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Region, Boise National Forest.Atlanta Ranger District 5650 (Buildings, Water, andSanitation) File.. L-Stations-Boise-Montezuma R.S. File... Improvement Plans, Region Four, Boise National Forest,1939. Boise National Forest Historical Files, Boise, ID.
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