Hi Fred-
Hope all is well. Mr. Smith sent the attached letter to the Parks Service
regarding the nomination.
Talk to you soon.
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Carl [mailto:fred-carl@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 1:50 PM
To: Benedetti, Cate; 'fred-carl@xxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: Camp Evans
Hello Cate,
Thank you for the call. The National Historic Landmark Nomination is
attached. Camp Evans is listed on the National Register of Historic
Places in 2000. To be named a Landmark, a historic site must fit into a
NHL theme study. In 2008 a theme study was completed that not only fit
Camp Evans WWII history, it named Camp Evans as a property that should be
evaluated. InfoAge volunteers, Dr. Ray Watson of Alabama and Mr. Robie
Lange of the NPS worked to meet the NHL process requirements. The next
step is for the NHL committee to select the nomination for its next
hearing and hopefully approve it.
If a letter could be written on behalf of the Congressman endorsing the
nomination and recommending the nomination be considered at the next
meeting of NHL committee, that would help. Once again, Congressman Smith
helps our effort.
It is very nice that at the 70th anniversary of the naming ceremony of
Camp Evans (March 30th, 1942) the site is close to being named a NHL.
This year is also the 100th anniversary of the site beginning as a Marconi
Wireless Station.
It is good to pay honor to the excellent work of the Americans who
helped win WWII. There is no finer honor we can pay the Americans who
helped develop and produce WWII radar than preserving the WWII Radar
Laboratory to INSPIRE students to learn science and history at the very
same place important science and history was made.
If the climate is right for another attempt for an 'ear-mark' to
preserve the historic buildings and advance our educational mission, we
would be pleased to prepare another package. Just let us know the
possibilities and the due date.
Thank you,
Fred Carl
732 299-0894
The National Historic Landmark Theme Study - WORLD WAR II & THE AMERICAN
HOME FRONT (198 pages) can be downloaded at:
http://www.nps.gov/nhl/themes/homefrontstudy.pdf
*****In the Forward it states:
On October 24, 2000, Congress directed the Secretary of the Interior to
conduct a theme study of the World War II home front.1 The purpose of the
study is to identify historic places that best represent the wartime
mobilization that occurred in the United States and its territories and
possessions between 1939 and 1945 to assist in identifying whether any of
these places should be
considered for potential inclusion in the National Park System.
****On page 142:
Camp Evans Historic District, Monmouth County, New Jersey (listed in the
National Register on March 26, 2002) The Camp Evans Signal Laboratory,
established in 1941, is the place most closely associated with the wartime
radar research and development work of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Radar
research was divided between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s
“Rad Lab,” the Naval Research Laboratory, and the Signal Corps, although
cooperation was hampered by the extreme secrecy under which the work was
conducted. Camp Evans concentrated on long- and mediumwave research, which
the Signal Corps laboratories at adjacent Fort Monmouth had been working
on since the 1930s. Dozens of Army ground and airborne radar types were
developed and produced under Signal Corps supervision. Proximity fuses,
another important wartime technological innovation developed by the Office
of Scientific Research and Development, also were reportedly tested at
Camp Evans. The facility is being reused by Infoage Science/History
Learning Center, preparers of its National Register documentation.
Recommendation: This property should be evaluated for possible NHL
designation.
----- Original Message -----
On 10:44 AM 01/30/2012 Benedetti, Cate wrote:
Hi Fred-
Per our conversation. Here is my contact info. Please send me the
documents that you believe would be helpful in drafting a letter.
Thanks.
Cate Benedetti
Legislative Assistant
Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04)
2373 Rayburn House Office Building
Tel: (202) 225-3765
Fax: (202) 225-7768
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