Excerpt from Rock Creek Park, an Administrative History The late Jim Redmond had a deep appreciation for the park he super intended. He valued its importance as a natural oasis in the nation's capital, and he also valued its historical significance. Looking forward to its centennial in 1990, he spoke to me several times about nominating Rock Creek Park to the National Register of Historic Places. In 1983, shortly before Jim's death, Regional Director Jack Fish of the National Park Service's National Capital Region asked if I could do an administrative history of the park. The history was needed to provide background for a park general management plan. It could also serve as documentation for a National Register nomination, if responsible managers and staff in the park and regional office wished to pursue that course. The resulting product, like other park administrative histories, te lates how Rock Creek Park was envisioned and established and how it has been managed to the recent past. Unlike some such histories, this one does not attempt to treat every aspect of the park story, and it does not exhaust those aspects it does treat. It is a broad overview that focuses on some of the nmre prominent features and attributes of the park. My hope is that more readers will be attracted by its relative brevity and informed by its selective nature than will be disappointed by its omissions and inattention to detail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.