Category: CRGIS (Page 7 of 8)

BHP’s Offbeat Outings: Worlds End

June 11, 2014 / Katie Hess / 0 Comments

Offbeat Outings is a bi-monthly series that highlights the travels of BHP staff as they experience history first-hand throughout Pennsylvania.

A few weeks ago, I headed north on Friday afternoon and drove just over 100 miles to Worlds End State Park in Sullivan County. Until living in Harrisburg and working for the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office, my territory was mostly focused south and east of Franklin County. Traveling north by myself was a new experience. Having had some pretty great adventures, I was surprised by this experience and by finding a landscape of such dynamic character. Continue reading

Community Preservation Workshop in Erie – June 20

June 5, 2014 / Tom Held / 0 Comments

Event will feature experts from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and Preservation Pennsylvania

Preservation Erie and the Erie County Historical Society are collaborating to present an Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority Mission Main Street workshop. The event will take place June 20, 2014, from 9a.m. to 3p.m. at the Jefferson Educational Society, 3207 State Street, Erie, Pa. Event updates and RSVP details are available under the Events tab on P reservation Erie’s website.

Offbeat Outings: Vandergrift

February 19, 2014 / Tom Held / 6 Comments

Offbeat Outings is a bi-monthly series that highlights the travels of BHP staff as they experience history first-hand throughout Pennsylvania.

When some people plan to go on an historic vacation they think of places to visit like the Egyptian pyramids at Giza, Colonial Williamsburg, Stonehenge, or even Gettysburg. When I think of an historic vacation, I think about going home. Continue reading

Improving Archaeological Reports and Review: Part 2

February 5, 2014 / Multiple Authors / 0 Comments

Archaeology is a destructive science. Generally there are no exciting explosions, or catastrophic collapses when undertaking an excavation, but all the same, once a site or portion of a site is excavated it is gone for good. Every good archaeologist is trained to take this fact into account when doing archaeological work. We sketch, note, measure, photograph, and generally record every minute detail of an excavation knowing that we are destroying the very thing we are interested in understanding. This is why there is more than a little truth in the old adage that for every day spent in the field, the archaeologist spends at least as much time, and often more, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting on the information that has been collected. Continue reading

BHP’s Offbeat Outings: Athens

December 11, 2013 / David Maher / 2 Comments

Offbeat Outings is a bi-monthly series that highlights the travels of BHP staff as they experience history first-hand throughout Pennsylvania.

My name is Dave, and I’m an addicted heritage tourist. However, as I’m sure most readers of this blog can confess, I am not alone. In fact, Heritage Tourism brings billions of dollars to Pennsylvania each year, with historic communities and districts creating the largest draw. Continue reading

GISday: November 20, 2013 – Discovering the World Through GIS

November 20, 2013 / Noël Strattan / 0 Comments

GISday is an international observance that is designed to make people aware of the possible uses of geographic information systems. Various events are held around the world to highlight GIS projects. Continue reading

Improving Archaeological Reports and Review: Part 1

October 9, 2013 / Multiple Authors / 4 Comments

We archaeological reviewers here at the PA SHPO have many jobs other than just reviewing Section 106 and State History Code submissions. Among our ‘other duties as assigned’, we are also responsible for helping the GIS Section ensure that the information from archaeological reports gets into the CRGIS (Cultural Resources Geographic Information System) for use by consultants, planners, and the public. Making sure all the data we receive at our office is curated correctly and that it is available online is a big job – one that you, as report writers and submitters, can help us do more efficiently. Continue reading

CRGIS: We Can Rebuild Him

July 31, 2013 / Tom Held / 0 Comments

Many months of planning and meetings have culminated in the August 2013 re-launch of the Cultural Resources Geographic Information System (CRGIS). Continue reading

“How do you know where to dig?”

June 19, 2013 / Douglas McLearen / 2 Comments

Almost every archaeologist I know has heard this question from somebody from the general public: “How do you know where to dig?” Although it used to give me a facial tic after hearing it over and over, it’s actually not a bad question.

National Transportation Week: A Road to the Past

May 15, 2013 / Keith Heinrich / 2 Comments

On Saturday, April 27, 2013, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at a unique dedication ceremony at Fort Halifax Park in Halifax Township, Dauphin County, just north of the Borough of Halifax. The ceremony was to dedicate numerous London Plane Sycamores recently planted to, if you’re feeling poetic, fix what time has wrought. You see, these trees were planted to replace missing Sycamores in the National Register of Historic Places-listed Legislative Route 1 Sycamore Allee (see the nomination on CRGIS for more information and for references). Continue reading

Category: CRGIS (Page 7 of 8)

BHP’s Offbeat Outings: Worlds End

Community Preservation Workshop in Erie – June 20

Offbeat Outings: Vandergrift

Improving Archaeological Reports and Review: Part 2

BHP’s Offbeat Outings: Athens

GISday: November 20, 2013 – Discovering the World Through GIS

Improving Archaeological Reports and Review: Part 1

CRGIS: We Can Rebuild Him

“How do you know where to dig?”

National Transportation Week: A Road to the Past

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