Effigy Mounds Administrative History

¹Copy of letter, President [Harry Truman] to Secretary of the Interior [Julius A. Krug], October 12, 1946; and U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 64, Part 2, page A371, Proclamation Establishing the Effigy Mounds National Monument--Iowa, October 25, 1949.

²Memorandum for the files, Howard W. Baker, Associate Regional Director, Region II, October 28, 1944; and letter, Clyde Richards, Administrative Assistant of Upper Mississippi Valley Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to Lawrence C. Merriam, Regional Director, Region II, October 10, 1942.

³Memorandum, Merriam to the Director [Newton Drury], October 29, 1946.

⁴Memorandum, Baker to Drury, June 13 and December 16, 1947, and January 9, 1948; letter, Baker to V.W. Flickinger, January 27, 1948; and Baker, interview with William S. Wood, Omaha, Nebraska, June 16, 1987.

⁵Memorandums, Merriam to Drury, October 29, 1946, and January 17, 1947.

⁶Memorandum, Merriam to Drury, November 22, 1946.

⁷Memorandum, C.P. Russell, Acting Director, National Park Service, to Merriam, December 5, 1946; memorandum, Baker to Drury, December 19, 1946; memorandum, Hugh M. Miller, Acting Director, National Park Service, to the Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, January 29, 1947; and U.S. Attorney General Homer Cummings to the Secretary of War, March 24, 1947.

⁸Memorandum, Aubrey H. Bond, Deputy Division Engineer, to District Engineer [W.K. Wilson, Jr.,], March 7, 1947; letter, Wilson to Merriam, March 17, 1947; letter, Richards to Merriam, October 10, 1942; notice to files, Corps of Engineers, April 22, 1947; and memorandum, Wilson to Division Engineer [C. Kittrell], Corps of Engineers, St. Louis, Missouri, May 15, 1947.

⁹Memorandum, Kittrell to Wilson, May 21, 1947; and memorandum, Wilson to Kittrell, May 27, 1947.

¹⁰Memorandum, Merriam to Drury, January 17, 1947; letter, Merriam to Flickinger, n.d.; and Wilfred D. Logan and John Earl Ingmanson, Palimpsest 50 no. 5: centerfold pictures.

¹¹Memorandum, Merriam to Drury, July 7, 1947; letters, Merriam to Wilson, November 22, 1946, and March 26, 1947; and memorandum, Merriam to Drury, May 28, 1947.

¹²Letter, Baker, to Flickinger, June 13, 1947; and letter, Merriam to Flickinger, July 16, 1947.

¹³Letter, Baker to Flickinger, January 27, 1948.

¹⁴Ibid.

¹⁵Memorandum, Drury to King, February 17, 1948.

¹⁶The Corps of Engineers held title to the land.

¹⁷Memorandum, Baker to Drury, January 9, 1948; letter, Baker to Flickinger, February 2, 1948; and memorandum, Merriam to Drury, March 5, 1948.

¹⁸Memorandum, Baker to Drury, March 16, 1948; and letter, Flickinger to Baker, March 20, 1948.

¹⁹Letter, Baker to Flickinger, March 22, 1948; and memorandum, Baker to Drury, March 25, 1948.

²⁰Letter, Flickinger to Baker, May 7, 1948; memorandum, Baker to Drury, June 4, 1948; and memorandum for the files, Regional Chief of Lands George F. Ingalls, April 29, 1948.

²¹Memorandum for the files, Baker, June 17, 1948; letter, Baker to Flickinger, August 10, 1948; letter, U.S. attorney general's office to Krug, September 1, 1948; letters, Acting Chief of Lands and Recreation Planning Charles A. Richey, to Flickinger, December 10 and December 13, 1948; and letter, Major Carl R. Lauritsen, Chief, Lands Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General, Department of the Army, to Drury, n.d.

²²Memorandum, Merriam to Drury, June 24, 1949.

²³Letter, Flickinger to Baker, June 13, 1949; memorandum, Merriam to Drury, November 12, 1948; letter, A.E. Demaray, Acting Director, National Park Service, to the attorney general, July 5, 1949; and letter, Baker to Flickinger, June 12, 1949.

²⁴Letter, Krug to Truman, September 26, 1949; letter, attorney general to Truman, October 24, 1949; letter, Assistant Director, Executive Office of the President, to the attorney general, October 4, 1949; all from Harry S Truman Papers, Official File, Folder 572, Box 1394, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri; and memorandum, Merriam to Drury, September 2, 1949.

²⁵Letter, Krug to Truman, September 26, 1949, Truman Papers, Truman Library; and letter, Baker to Flickinger, September 20, 1949.

²⁶Letter, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, Jr., to Truman, October 24, 1949, Truman Papers, Truman Library.

²⁷Proclamation Establishing Effigy Mounds National Monument--Iowa, October 25, 1949. 64th Statutes at Large, 81st Congress, 2d Session, 1950-51, 64 part 2:A371. A copy of the proclamation in its entirety is contained in Appendix A.