Assateague Island Administrative History

¹Letter, Udall to Tawes, May 2, 1963, William E. Green Papers, Assateague Island National Seashore headquarters (hereinafter cited as ASIS).

²"Master Development Plan Report, Assateague Island State Park, Worcester County, Maryland," copy in Department of the Interior Library.

³Memorandum, Udall to Hartzog, Aug. 31, 1966, file D18, ASIS.

⁴Roberts, "Assateague Island National Seashore (A Brief Plan for the Maryland Section)," Feb. 16, 1967, file D18, ASIS; memorandum, Roberts to Director, Aug. 24, 1967, file L70, ASIS.

⁵Memorandum, Roberts to Director, Aug. 24, 1967, file L70, ASIS; H.—Joost Polak, "Park Unit Begins Exchange Study," The Sun, Baltimore, Aug. 17, 1967, p. A10.

⁶Letter, Roberts to William O. Mills, Oct. 24, 1969, file L7019, ASIS.

⁷Memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, Northeast Region, Mar. 6, 1967, file A44, ASIS; memorandum, Roberts to Director, Aug. 24, 1967, file L70, ASIS.

⁸Memorandum, Roberts to Director, Aug. 24, 1967, file L70, ASIS; memorandum, Associate Regional Director George A. Palmer to Regional Director, Northeast Region, Apr. 6, 1967, file D18, ASIS.

⁹Letter, Roberts to Rohm, Mar. 28, 1968, file L70, ASIS; letter, Robin to Roberts, Apr. 10, 1968, file L7019, ASIS.

¹⁰Memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, Northeast Region, June 1, 1967, file L70, ASIS.

¹¹Roberts, "Highlight Briefing Statement, 1967 Calendar Year," Jan. 17, 1968, file A2621, ASIS.

¹²Letter, Agnew to Udall, Oct. 5, 1967, file L7019, ASIS; memorandum, Jett to Chief, Design and Construction, Philadelphia Planning and Service Center, Oct. 6, 1967, file D18, ASIS. (Assateague was under the National Capital Region from July 1, 1967, to June 30, 1968.)

¹³Roberts' resume of meeting, Nov. 27, 1967, file L7019, ASIS; memorandum, Roberts to Chief, Design and Construction, Philadelphia Planning and Service Center, Dec. 7, 1967, file D18, ASIS.

¹⁴Roberts' resume of meeting, Nov. 27, 1967, file L7019, ASIS.

¹⁵Ibid.; letter, Udall to Agnew, Jan. 3, 1968, file L7019, ASIS.

¹⁶Letter, Agnew to Udall, May 7, 1968, file D18, ASIS; letter, Udall to Agnew, July 3, 1968, file D18, ASIS.

¹⁷Memorandum, Golub to Regional Director, Northeast Region, Sept. 5, 1968, file A2623, ASIS.

¹⁸Memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, Northeast Region, Sept. 9, 1968, file A2623, ASIS.

¹⁹Memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, Northeast Region, Dec. 21, 1966, file A44, ASIS; memorandum, Roberts to Director, Aug. 24, 1967, file L70, ASIS; Roberts quoted in memorandum, Regional Director Nash Castro, National Capital Region, to Director, Apr. 25, 1968, file L7019, ASIS.

²⁰Memorandum, Associate Regional Director George A. Palmer to Regional Director, Northeast Region, Apr. 3, 1967, file D18, ASIS; memorandum, Regional Solicitor William W. Redmond to Regional Director, Northeast Region, June 23, 1967, file L1425, ASIS.

²¹Memorandum, Redmond to Regional Director, Northeast Region, June 23, 1967, file L1425, ASIS.

²²Memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, Northeast Region, July 5, 1967, file L1425, ASIS; letter Roberts to Buscher, Nov. 17, 1967, file F4217, ASIS.

²³Letter, Buscher to Roberts, Nov. 24, 1967, file F4217, ASIS; memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, National Capital Region, Dec. 28, 1967, file F4217, ASIS.

²⁴Memorandum, Russell E. Dickenson to Associate Director, Jan. 11, 1968, file L1425, ASIS; letter, Buscher to Dickenson, Jan. 9, 1968, file L1425, ASIS.

²⁵Letter, Assistant Secretary Stanley A. Cain to Rep. Rogers C. B. Morton, Feb. 2, 1968, file W3814, ASIS; memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, Northeast Region, Dec. 9, 1968, file L1425, ASIS; letter, Garrison to Buscher, Jan. 31, 1969, file L1425, ASIS.

²⁶H.R. 13656, 91st Congress, 1st Session, Sept. 8, 1969.

²⁷Letter, Roberts to Buscher, Dec. 17, 1969, file L1425, ASIS; memorandum, Roberts to Regional Director, Northeast Region, Feb. 3, 1970, file L1425, ASIS; memorandum, Director Lemuel A. Garrison, Northeast Region, to Director, Apr. 17, 1970, file L1425, ASIS.

²⁸Anastisi conversation in personal memorandum, Roberts to George A. Palmer, Sept. 16, 1970, file L1425, ASIS; letter, Schmidt to Fisher, Sept. 30, 1970, file L1425, ASIS. For negative Interior report on Morton bill see letter, Assistant Secretary Leslie L. Glasgow to Rep. Wayne N. Aspinall, Mar. 31, 1970, file L1425, ASIS.

²⁹Letter, Fisher to Schmidt, Oct. 28, 1970, file L1425, ASIS; letter, Acting Director George A. Palmer, Northeast Region, to Fisher, Jan. 8, 1971, file L1425, ASIS; letter, Palmer to Fisher, Feb. 16, 1971, file L1425, ASIS; letter, Hartzog to Fisher, June 2, 1971, file L1425, ASIS; letter, Fisher to Hartzog, June 10, 1971, file L1425, ASIS; letter, Hartzog to Fisher, June 16, 1971, file L1425, ASIS; press release, Office of the Secretary, "Maryland Receives $1 Million Check for Assateague Bridge," July 13, 1971, copy in NPS Office of Cultural Resources Management, Washington, D.C.

³⁰Letter, Rohm to Roberts, Apr. 20, 1970, file 7019, ASIS.

³¹Memorandum, Road Committee to Director, July 26, 1970, file D3019, ASIS; Ellis quoted in "Briefing on North Beach Entrance Road and Related Federal—State Matters," 1971, file L7019, ASIS.

³²"Assateague Park Head Gives Answer to Critics," Democratic Messenger, Snow Hill, Md., Feb. 17, 1971, ASIS clipping file.

³³Interview with Rohm, May 24, 1982; Rohm letter in various Maryland newspapers March—April 1971, ASIS clipping file; "Superintendent of Assateague State Park Gets Reinstated," Eastern Shore Times, Berlin, Md., Mar. 4, 1971, ASIS clipping file.

³⁴Rohm interview.

³⁵Interview with Norris, May 24, 1982; interview with Tousley, June 16, 1982; interview with Finley, Apr. 21, 1982.