Cowpens Administrative History

¹ Harry R. Wilkins, business card, Wilkins Papers, COWP; Harry R. Wilkins to Clarence Kuester, February 9, 1940, Wilkins Papers, COWP.

² Superintendent, Kings Mountain NMP, to Regional Director, Region One, October 9, 1953, File A3615, KIMO; The Greenville News, October 30, 1979, 6-A, Newspaper Files, KIMO; Oswald E. Camp, Superintendent, to Regional Director, Region One, April 19, 1940, Record Group 79, Records of the National Park Service, Central Classified Files, 1936-1952, Entry 81, Box 64, File 2, National Archives and Records Administration, Mid-Atlantic Region, Philadelphia, hereinafter cited as MAR; Elbert Cox, Coordinating Superintendent, to Mrs. Charles M. Drummond, May 1, 1940, Record Group 79, Entry 81, Box 64, File 2, MAR; Elbert Cox, Coordinating Superintendent, to Director, March 13, 1940, Record Group 79, Entry 81, Box 64, File 2, MAR.

³ A Prospectus of the Proposed Cowpens Battleground National Military Park, South Carolina (Gaffney, South Carolina: Daniel Morgan Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1947), Cowpens Files, KIMO; Albert Schellenburg to Committee on Proposed Cowpens Battle Ground Park, January 25, 1947, Wilkins Papers, COWP; sketch of observation tower, Wilkins Papers, COWP.

⁴ A Prospectus of the Proposed Cowpens Battleground National Military Park, Cowpens Files, KIMO.

⁵ "Battleground Pullman Car Dedicated," Spartanburg Herald-Journal, undated newspaper clipping, Wilkins Papers, COWP; "And Nobody Would Budge," Spartanburg Herald-Journal, August 14, unknown year, Wilkins Papers, COWP; Rogers, Part I, 8; U.S. Congress, Senate, Senate Resolution 1279, 80^th Congress, 1^st Session, reprinted in Rogers; U.S. Congress, House, House Resolution 3570, 80^th Congress, 1^st Session, reprinted in Rogers; U.S. Congress, Senate, Senate Resolution 687, 81^st Congress, 1^st Session, reprinted in Rogers; U.S. Congress, House, House Resolution 2846, 81^st Congress, 1^st Session, reprinted in Rogers; Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1735.

⁶ Harry Wilkins, Geoffrey O'Hara, Cowpens Battleground: A Song, Wilkins Papers, COWP; The Battle of Cowpens Anniversary Program, January 30, 1948, Wilkins Papers, COWP; Harry Wilkins to Mrs. M.W. Bobo, Jr., October 1, 1949, Wilkins Papers, COWP; "Song Writers Meet," Spartanburg Herald, February 3, 1948, Wilkins Papers, COWP; Charles Lea to Mrs. Charles Pace, January 13, 1958, Wilkins Papers, COWP; Harry Wilkins to Spartanburg County Foundation, January 17, 1949, Wilkins Papers, COWP; "Battle Song Patron To Be Honor Guest," Gaffney Ledger, January 29, 1948, Wilkins Papers, COWP.

⁷ Mrs. J. Vernon Phillips, Regent, Daniel Morgan Chapter, Daughter of the American Revolution, to Regional Director, Region One, September 24, 1953, File A3615, KIMO; Assistant Regional Director, Region One, to Superintendent, Kings Mountain, September 30, 1953, File A3615, KIMO; Superintendent, Kings Mountain, to Regional Director, Region One, October 9, 1953, File A3615, KIMO; Monthly Reports, August 1951, October 1953.

⁸ Superintendent, Kings Mountain, to Regional Director, Region One, October 9, 1953, File A3615, KIMO.

⁹ Ibid.; Monthly Reports, June 1956, September 1956, January 1957, July-November 1958, February 1959, May-June 1959, February 1960, May 1961; Hillory Tolson, compiler, Laws Relating to the National Park Service, Supplement II (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1963), 337; Massey, 87-88.

¹⁰ "Less Than Two Acres Devoted to Historic Cowpens Battle," Gaffney Ledger, August 1966, Folder 33, Box 3, Series 1.6, KIMO; Tom S. Gettys to Ben F. Moomaw, October 11, 1966, Folder 33, Box 3, Series 1.6, KIMO; Ben F. Moomaw to Tom S. Gettys, October 18, 1966, Folder 33, Box 3, Series 1.6, KIMO; F.W. Sossamon to Donald R. Russell, September 15, 1966, Folder 33, Box 3, Series 1.6, KIMO; F.W. Sossamon to Strom Thurmond, September 15, 1966, Folder 33, Box 3, Series 1.6, KIMO; Massey, 90-91; Study of Alternatives Report Concerning Boundary Revisions to Enlarge Cowpens National Battlefield Site, Cherokee County, South Carolina (National Park Service, 1968), 1-3, 23, Cowpens Files, KIMO.

¹¹ Mackintosh, The National Parks, 62-84.

¹² Study of Alternatives Report, 2-5, 16-24.

¹³ Office of Resource Planning, A Master Plan for Cowpens National Battlefield, South Carolina (National Park Service, 1970), 1-18, 37, Cowpens Files, KIMO.

¹⁴ Petition, Cowpens National Battlefield Site, 1970, Folder 19, Box 3, Series 1.6, KIMO.

¹⁵ J.A. Parris to Superintendent, Kings Mountain National Military Park, November 18, 1970, Folder 19, Box 3, Series 1.6, KIMO; Ben F. Moomaw to Director, Southeast Region, November 23, 1970, Folder 19, Box 3, Series 1.6, KIMO; Massey, 92-93; Chief Resource Management Planner, Office of Environmental Planning and Design, to Chief, Office of Environmental Planning and Design, August 1971, Cowpens Files, KIMO.

¹⁶ H.P. Blanton, Supervisor, Cherokee County, to Ben F. Moomaw, October 7, 1969, Cowpens Files, KIMO.

¹⁷ South Carolina General Assembly, Concurrent Resolution 2256, January 17, 1968, Cowpens Files, KIMO.

¹⁸ Concurrent Resolutions of the South Carolina State Senate and House, March 16, 1967, and January 17, 1968, Cowpens Files, KIMO; H.N. Heckle, South Carolina State Highway Department, to Charles S. Marshall, National Park Service, April 11, 1969, Cowpens Files, KIMO; Chairman, Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments, to Secretary of the Interior, April 18, 1968, Cowpens Files, KIMO.

¹⁹ Study of Alternatives Report, 3, 23; U.S. Congress, House, Report of Proceedings, Hearing held before Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, H.R. 2073, May 13, 1969 (Washington: Ward and Paul, 1969), Legislative Files, COWP; U.S. Congress, Senate, Senate Bill 1552, 92^d Congress, 1^st Session, 1-2, Legislative Files, COWP; U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House Report 92-743, 92^d Congress, 1^st Session, 1-2, 18-19, Legislative Files, COWP; Summary Sheet, Cowpens National Battlefield, South Carolina, 1972, Cowpens Files, KIMO; "Cowpens Park Plan Criticized," unknown newspaper, May 13, 1969, 6-B, Folder 21, Box 3, Series 1.6, KIMO.

²⁰ Ben F. Moomaw, Kings Mountain Superintendent, to Director, Southeast Region, July 13, 1971, Cowpens Files, KIMO; Comments of Representative Sam P. Manning on the Presentation and Unveiling of the Painting "The Battle of Cowpens," July 2, 1974, Cowpens Files, KIMO; Sam P. Manning, interview by Pat Ruff, June 7, 1997, COWP.

²¹ Manning, March 15, 1997.

²² Ibid., March 15, 1997; May 3, 1997; May 31, 1997; June 7, 1997.

²³ Ibid.; Testimony of State Representative Sam P. Manning of South Carolina on HR 2160 Before National Parks and Recreation Subcommittee, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, November 15, 1971, Legislative Files, COWP.

²⁴ Manning, May 3, 1997.

²⁵ Ibid., May 3, 1997; May 31, 1997.

²⁶ Ibid., March 15, 1997; May 3, 1997; May 31, 1997; June 7, 1997.

²⁷ Ibid.

²⁸ Assistant Secretary of the Interior to Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States House of Representatives, November 12, 1971, Legislative Files, COWP; Assistant Secretary of the Interior to Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, February 10, 1972, Legislative Files, COWP; Statement by the Department of the Interior Before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation, House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, on HR 2160, November 1971, Legislative Files, COWP; Statement by the Department of the Interior Before the Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation, Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, on Senate 1552, February 1972, Legislative Files, COWP; Manning, May 3, 1997; May 31, 1997.

²⁹ House Report 92-743, 1-2, 18-19, Legislative Files, COWP.

³⁰ Ibid., 19.

³¹ Summary Sheet, Cowpens National Battlefield, South Carolina, 1972, Cowpens Files, KIMO; "Cowpens Battleground Land Funds Approved," The State, February 1, 1972, 5-B, Newspaper Files, KIMO.

³² United States Congress, Senate, Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Thursday, February 17, 1972, Transcript of Proceedings in the Matters of Cowpens National Battlefield and Piscataway National Park (Silver Springs, Maryland: Acme Reporting Company, 1972), 1-92, Legislative Files, COWP; Laws Relating to the National Park Service, Supplement III, February 1963 to December 1972 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1974), 220-221.