Cowpens Administrative History

¹ Pat Stanek to Mack, Tommy, Chuck, and Deidra, April 8, 1981, Reading Files, COWP; Superintendent to Acting Associate Regional Director, Parks Management, October 19, 1981, Reading Files, COWP; Energy Conservation Narrative Report, Cowpens National Battlefield, 1981, Reading Files, COWP; Superintendent to Associate Regional Director, Operations, July 20, 1982, Reading Files, COWP; Superintendent to Associate Regional Director, Operations, September 8, 1982, Reading Files, COWP; Energy Conservation Narrative Report, Cowpens National Battlefield, 1982, Reading Files, COWP; Superintendent to Acting Associate Regional Director, Operations, April 24, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Superintendent to Regional Personnel Officer, October 23, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Chairperson, Equal Opportunity Committee, to Superintendent, November 19, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Third Quarter Energy Conservation Report, Cowpens National Battlefield, 1984, Reading Files, COWP.

² Superintendent to Associate Regional Director, Administration, July 31, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Superintendent to Regional Equal Opportunity Manager, September 10, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Narrative Report for YCC, Cowpens National Battlefield, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Annual Report, 1984, 2, 4.

³ William T. Springer to William A. Clark, December 11, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Annual Report, 1984, 1-2; Karen Rehm, The Administrative History of Ninety Six National Historic Site (National Park Service, 1988), 24, 34.

⁴ Superintendent to Deputy Regional Director, October 11, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; William T. Springer to T. Destry Jarvis, December 5, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Superintendent to Regional Director, December 31, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Documented Safety Management and Loss Control Program, Cowpens National Battlefield, April 12, 1985, COWP; Purchasing Guidelines, Cowpens National Battlefield, July 22, 1985, COWP; Statement for Management, Cowpens National Battlefield, April 4, 1985, COWP, 1-21; Annual Report, 1984, 1-2.

⁵ Statement for Management, 15.

⁶ Superintendent to Deputy Regional Director, October 11, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Karen Rehm to Jeff Patrick, October 29, 1984, Reading Files, COWP.

⁷ Superintendent to Deputy Regional Director, October 11, 1984, Reading Files, COWP.

⁸ Rehm, i-iv, 1-2; Ninety Six National Historic Site Annual Reports, 1987, 1; 1991, 1.

⁹ Ninety Six National Historic Site Annual Report, 1987, 1; Rehm, 24, 34.

¹⁰ William T. Springer to R.B. Hayes, March 1, 1985, Reading Files, COWP; William T. Springer to Associate Regional Director, Operations, August 16, 1985, Reading Files, COWP; William T. Springer to Regional Director, August 21, 1985, Reading Files, COWP; "Cowpens National Battlefield to start charging visitors $1 fee," Greenville News, February 20, 1987, Newspaper Clipping Files, COWP; "Cowpens park to start user fee," Gaffney Ledger, February 20, 1987, 2, Newspaper Clipping Files, COWP; "Cowpens Battlefield drops admission fee," Spartanburg Herald, November 13, 1987, Newspaper Clipping Files, COWP; "Battlefield to charge fee," Spartanburg Herald, undated, 1988, Newspaper Clipping Files, COWP; "Park charges halted," Gaffney Ledger, December 21, 1988, Newspaper Clipping Files, COWP; Patricia A. Ruff to Arthur Magill, December 21, 1988, Reading Files, COWP.

¹¹ Rehm, 24, 34; Annual Reports, 1987, 1; 1991, 1, 4; 1993, 1, 5; Robert Armstrong to Associate Regional Director, Administration, December 19, 1990, Reading Files, COWP; Superintendent to Regional EO Manager, October 29, 1991, Reading Files, COWP.

¹² Annual Reports, 1993, 1; 1994, 4; 1995, 4; 1996, 4-5; Ninety Six National Historic Site Annual Report, 1995, 3.

¹³ National Park Service Strategic Plan for Cowpens National Battlefield, Chesnee, South Carolina, July 25, 1997, Government Performance and Results Act files, Southeast Regional Office, Atlanta; Farrell Saunders to Tim Bright, March 11, 1997, Reading Files, COWP; Michelle Lester to Vickie Feaster, April 15, 1998, Reading Files, COWP; J. Farrell Saunders to S.C. Department of Probation, June 15, 1998, Reading Files, COWP; Farrell Saunders to U.S. Probation Office, July 12, 1998, Reading Files, COWP; Farrell Saunders to Jerry Belson, email, May 12, 1998, Reading Files, COWP; Pat Ruff, interview by author, November 4, 1999.

¹⁴ Annual Reports, 1984, 2; 1991, 1; 1993, 3; 1994, 4; 1995, 3-4; Michelle P. Lester to South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, August 9, 1995, Reading Files, COWP.

¹⁵ Contract Records, 14431B514097002, Trail Rehab Project 1997 file, Office Files, COWP; U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Southeast Regional Office, Invitation for Bids, 14431F514097004, July 18, 1997, Bathrooms Rehab file, Office Files, COWP; U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Southeast Regional Office, Rehab Visitor Center, Cowpens National Battlefield, July 21, 1998, VC Rehab FY99 file, Office Files, COWP; Annual Reports, 1997, 1, 3; 1998, 1.

¹⁶ Superintendent to Associate Regional Director, Administration, May 18, 1982, Reading Files, COWP; Superintendent to Associate Regional Director, Administration, December 21, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Annual Reports, 1991, 1; 1994, 4; 1995, 2, 5.

¹⁷ Pat Stanek to Lindsay Pettus, September 13, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Annual Report, 1984, 2; Land Protection Plan, Cowpens National Battlefield, 1985, COWP; Land Protection Plan, Cowpens National Battlefield, 1987, COWP; Land Protection Plan, Cowpens National Battlefield, 1989, COWP; Sibbald Smith to Driggs O. Hill, Sr., June 17, 1992, Long-Term Land Use Planning-Daniel Morgan WD folder, Office Files, COWP; Farrell Saunders to Cameron Binkley, Personal Communication, April 9, 2001.

¹⁸ Superintendent to Regional Director, January 4, 1982, Reading Files, COWP.

¹⁹ Annual Reports, 1987, 1; 1996, 1-2; 1997, 1; "Budget standoff closes battlefield in Cowpens," Spartanburg Herald-Journal, October 8, 1990, Newspaper Clipping Files, COWP.

²⁰ Annual Report, 1994, 1.

²¹ Robert S. Armstrong to Robert M. Strother, September 16, 1987, Reading Files, COWP; Robert S. Armstrong to Charles McBrayer, June 13, 1991, Reading Files, COWP; Robert S. Armstrong to Charles McBrayer, September 18, 1991, Reading Files, COWP; Annual Report, 1995, 1-2; Farrell Saunders to Cameron Binkley, Personal Communication, April 9, 2001.

²² Laws Relating to the National Park Service, 99; Superintendent to VIP Coordinator, May 23, 1982, Reading Files, COWP; VIP Program Survey, Cowpens National Battlefield, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Annual Reports, 1984, 3; 1993, 2; 1994, 3; 1997, 1.

²³ Pat Stanek to Harry Simms, August 28, 1981, Reading Files, COWP; Pat Stanek, For General Information Memorandum, May 3, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Pat Stanek to Charles Tate, May 31, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Cowpens Superintendent to Moores Creek Superintendent, March 15, 1982, Reading Files, COWP; Terry Mitchell to reenactment groups, December 22, 1984, Reading Files, COWP; Timothy J. Kugel to William J. Springer, October 29, 1985, COWP.

²⁴ Pat Stanek, For General Information Memorandum, May 3, 1984, Reading Files, COWP.

²⁵ South Carolina Secretary of State, charter, Cowpens Battlefield Association, February 17, 1983, COWP.

²⁶ Dr. J.N. Lipscomb to A.P. Miller, December 17, 1981, COWP; Annual Report, 1984, 3; South Carolina Secretary of State, charter, Cowpens Battlefield Association, February 17, 1983, COWP; William Springer to William E. Winter, Jr., February 20, 1985, Reading Files, COWP.

²⁷ William Springer to William E. Winter, Jr., April 22, 1985, Reading Files, COWP.

²⁸ William T. Springer to William Winter, Jr., February 23, 1987, Reading Files, COWP; William T. Springer to William E. Winter, Jr., August 7, 1987, Reading Files, COWP; "Cowpens Battlefield Association To Meet," Chesnee Tribune, December 15, 1993, Newspaper Clipping Files, COWP; "'Friends of the Cowpens' set next meeting Aug. 25," Gaffney Ledger, August 24, 1994, Newspaper Clipping Files, COWP; Pat Ruff to John B. Frizzell, Jr., March 19, 1995, Reading Files, COWP; "Historian Lipscomb dead at 72," Spartanburg Herald, June 30, 1987, Newspaper Clipping Files, COWP; "Attorney, activist Manning dies at age 73," Spartanburg Herald-Journal web site [http://www.goupstate.com/hj/news/0728manning.htm], July 30, 1999.