Preserving the Historic Road 2010

REGISTER NOW for Preserving the Historic Road 2010!

Sept 9-12, 2010 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center



Join us in the Nation's Capital for the Seventh Biennial of the Preserving the Historic Road conference. The program for this year's event promises exciting learning opportunities for those of you fighting the battle to preserve historic roads. Learn the latest tools and techniques from leading practioners from the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Highway Administration, the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service; leading professional practitioners, state and local transportation and planning departments, state historic preservation officers, university professors, and foreign scholars. Make your plans now to join us in DC!



Register Today -- Final Registration Deadline closes September 3! To register and view conference sessions, tour, and details, please visit:

http://www.historicroads.org/



Conference highlights:

- Opening reception in the historic National Building Museum, one of the great interior spaces in Washington, DC

- Opening remarks from Jon Jarvis, Director of the National Park Service, Gabe Klein, the energetic head of the District of Columbia DOT and representatives from AASHTO and US/ICOMOS

- Keynote by Dan Marriott, founder of Preserving the Historic Road

- 22 educational sessions addressing real solutions for historic road engineering, preservation, and the latest in state of the art documentation practices

- A record number of international participation from the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Israel, and Australia

- Friday Movie Night, featuring vintage highway film footage

- Closing Keynote by Dr. Ted Sky, who will tell us how the battle to fund the National Road in the early 1800s set the stage for federal investment for centuries to come

- Saturday Dinner along the George Washington Memorial Parkway with sweeping views of the Potomac River

- Exciting tours featuring rural roads in Maryland and Virginia, the 200-year old National Pike, historic Georgetown, National Park Service parkways, and historic US Route 1



Whether a historic preservationist, engineer, transportation planner, landscape architect, archaeologist, cultural resource specialist, compliance specialist or historic road advocate, you won't want to miss this important meeting.

US Army - Eisenhower Convoy Transportation History Video Tapes

For those interested, through the George Mason University Libraries, a collection that contains Eisenhower convoy video tapes is publicly available. This collection contains tapes, documents, and books on transportation planning. Included is a VHS videotape of footage from 1919 on a US Army convoy traveling across the country on Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway in America.




http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/gifford.html

TRB History Committee Mid-Year Meeting Agenda

Below is the link to the mid-year meeting agenda:

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9OXyiyGWnNRZGU2YjIxYzAtMWNjZi00NGExLWI3ZDMtNmUzZDY0ZGYxODMx&hl=en

Friends List - Please Join Our Friends List For History Committee Activities

2010 Annual Report and Annual Meeting Notes

New documents are available on the Google site, which include the 2010 Annual Report and Notes from the 2010 Annual Meeting.

https://sites.google.com/site/trbcommitteeabg50/home/files



Alternatively, the file are directly available through google documents:
Annual Report:
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9OXyiyGWnNRMzY2MjllN2YtNzNhYy00NGI0LTk5NGYtY2NmZjhiNjk3Zjc2&hl=en

Annual Meeting Notes:
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9OXyiyGWnNRMTc1OGQ3ZmEtYTE1Yy00OWE5LWJlOTMtZTBiOWRkYTY0MzZk&hl=en

TRB History Committee Mid-Year Meeting

The TRB History Committee Mid-Year Meeting will be August 18, from 9 AM to 3 PM (Eastern Time) at TRB.  More details and call-in information will follow.

TRB Mid-Year Meeting - History Hike Information

Visit the History Hike Blog for information on this summer's history hike in Minneapolis:

http://transportationhistoryhike.blogspot.com/2010/07/minneapolis-history-hike-2010.html