• Cedar Creek and Belle Grove NHP

    Cedar Creek & Belle Grove

    National Historical Park Virginia

Park Advisory Commission

Congress created the Park Advisory Commission to advise the National Park Service on the preparation and implementation of the General Management Plan. The commission is comprised of fifteen members from the key partner organizations, the local towns and counties, park landowners, the Commonwealth of Virginia, a citizens interest group, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service. They meet quarterly and all meetings are open to the public. A schedule of the Commission's upcoming quarterly meetings can be found on the park's Events Page. Meeting notes and a profile on each commissioner are posted below.

Park Advisory Commission - approved Meeting Notes:

Meeting Notes - June 17, 2010 (.pdf file, 114 kb)

Meeting Notes - December 16, 2010 (.pdf file, 171 kb)

Meeting Notes - March 16, 2011 (.pdf file, 224 kb)

Meeting Notes - December 17, 2011 (.pdf file, 130 kb)

Meeting Notes - March 15, 2012 (Word Document, 32 kb)

Meeting Notes - June 21, 2012 (.pdf file, 51 kb)

Meeting Notes - September 20, 2012 (Word Document, 21 kb)

Meeting Notes - December 20, 2012 (Word Document, 22 kb)

 

Federal Advisory Commission - 2013

 

John Adamson, Belle Grove Inc.

 

Carl Bernhards, Town of Middletown

 

Mary Bowser, PhD. Private Landowner

 
 

Katie Donahue, US National Forest Service

 

Eric Lawrence, Frederick County

 

Rob Nieweg, National Trust for Historic Preservation

 

Nick Picerno, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation

 

Richard Redmon, Town of Strasburg

 
Park Advisory Commissioner Pam Sheets
Commissioner Profile: Pam Sheets (.pdf file, 91.9 kb)
 

Jim Northup, National Park Service (DFO)

 

Cedar Creek and Belle Grove NHP: Advisory Commission Bylaws
A copy of the Cedar Creek and Belle Grove NHP Advisory Commission Bylaws is available as a downloadable PDF document (file size = 22.2 kb)

 
 

Did You Know?

thumbnail image of a Civil War cannon crew

In 1860, Shenandoah Valley counties voted for John Bell, a moderate Democrat dedicated to maintaining the Union.  Valley counties at a state convention urged staying in the Union, but after the firing on Fort Sumter they stayed with Virginia rather than joining the new state of West Virginia.