Effigy Mounds Administrative History

¹Monthly Narrative Reports, December 1949-February 1950; and F.R. Robertson to files, April 19, 1950.

²Monthly Narrative Reports, March-June 1950.

³Activities Reports, March-June, 1950.

⁴The number was changed to 76 on January 1, 1969, when several states adjusted their highway numbers to conform with neighboring states. See C.S. Carmean, Traffic Engineer, Iowa State Highway Commission, to Superintendent Milt Thompson, October 23, 1968; and Des Moines Sunday Register, March 24, 1968.

⁵Activities Reports, March 5-May 27, 1950, inclusive; and Monthly Narrative Reports, December 1949-February 1950 and May-July 1950.

⁶Monthly Narrative Reports, April and May 1951; and Robert G. Hall, Assistant Regional Director, to Director [Newton Drury], January 16, 1951.

The following October, Kennedy hired Marquette farmer Ralph Blackwell to build a temporary equipment storage shed which also housed a small office. Blackwell provided his own tractor, loader gasoline, materials, and labor for a fee of $3.00 per hour. [9] The National Park Service also constructed two privies for public use.

⁷See Regional Historian Merrill Mattes and Chief of Lands George F. Ingalls to files, September 11, 1950; and miscellaneous correspondence between the National Park Service and the State Highway Commission, May 12-September 11, 1950.

⁸Monthly Narrative Reports, July and August 1950; and Monthly Narrative Report, October 1952.

⁹Superintendent William J. Kennedy to Regional Director [Lawrence C. Merriam], Region II, October 16, 1950.

¹⁰Regional Architect John B. Cabot to Kennedy, December 5, 1951.

¹¹Assistant Regional Director Hall to Kennedy, May 9, 1952.

¹² Monthly Narrative Reports, January-June and November 1952.

¹³Monthly Narrative Reports, March-June 1951.

¹⁴Monthly Narrative Report, September 1951.

¹⁵ Monthly Narrative Reports, May-August 1952; and [Draft] Mission 66 Prospectus, July 13, 1955.

¹⁶Monthly Narrative Reports, April-December 1953.

¹⁷ Monthly Narrative Reports, May-August 1953.

¹⁸Monthly Narrative Report, September 1953.

¹⁹Monthly Narrative Reports, September-December 1953.

²⁰[Draft] Mission 66 Prospectus, July 13, 1955.

²¹See Monthly Narrative Reports, April-June 1950.

²²Conrad L. Wirth, Parks, Politics, and the People (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980), 58.

²³Reader's Digest, January 1955.

²⁴See Wirth, Parks. Politics, and the People, 59.

²⁵Wirth, Parks. Politics, and the People, 238. For a more thorough discussion of Mission 66, see Chapter 9, "Mission 66 and the Road to the Future," 237-284.

²⁶Master Plan Draft Outline, 1953; and National Park Service drawings NM—EFF 2002 and 2003, 1951.

²⁷See [Draft] Mission 66 Prospectus, Effigy Mounds National Monument, July 13, 1955; and Mission 66 prospectus, Effigy Mounds National Monument, June 2, 1956.

²⁸Mission 66 Prospectus, June 29, 1956.

²⁹Ibid.

³⁰See memorandum, Regional Director Howard Baker to Wirth, April 6, 1956; and Monthly Narrative Report, June 1959.

³¹Memorandum, Baker to Wirth, April 6, 1956; and Monthly Narrative Report, June 1959.

³²Memorandum, Superintendent Walter T. Berrett to Baker, June 29, 1956.

³³Memorandum, Edward S. Zimmer, Chief, Eastern Office of Design and Construction, to Wirth, November 29, 1956.

³⁴Memorandum, John B. Cabot, Acting Assistant Regional Director, Midwest Region, to Wirth, November 27, 1953; memorandum, Thomas C. Vint, Chief, Eastern Office of Design and Construction, to Baker, January 4, 1954; memorandum, Baker to Wirth, July 1, 1955; memorandum, Berrett to Baker, July 7, 1955; handwritten note, Zimmer to Berrett, July 13, 1955; and memorandum Vint to Baker, August 25, 1955.

³⁵Memorandum, Zimmer to Wirth, January 15, 1957.

³⁶See memorandum, Berrett to Zimmer, November 25, 1957; memorandum, Baker to Zimmer, December 3, 1957; memorandum, Dick Sutton, Acting Chief, Eastern Office of Design and Construction, to Zimmer, December 26, 1957; and memorandum, Berrett to Zimmer, August 27, 1958.

³⁷Letter, Acting Secretary of the Interior Hatfield Chilson to Congressman Henry O. Talle, March 19, 1957; and memorandum, Berrett to Zimmer, May 13, 1958.

³⁸Meir Sofair, "Completion Report Narrative, Visitor Center — Two Residences — Storage and Workshop Building and Water Sewage Systems" January [1961].

³⁹Memorandum, Zimmer to Baker, September 3, 1958.

⁴⁰Sofair, "Completion Report Narrative, Visitor Center — Two Residences (2)," January 1961; and memorandum, Berrett to Baker, April 28, 1958.

⁴¹Ibid.

⁴²Robert T. Bray, Acting Superintendent, Effigy Mounds National Monument, to Baker, September 22, 1958.

⁴³The Service installed two separate sewage systems, one serving the visitor center, the other serving the residential area.

⁴⁴ Monthly Narrative Report, December 1959; and Sofair, "Completion Report of Construction Project, Sewer and Water Systems," January 1961.

⁴⁵Ibid.; and Monthly Narrative Report, May 1959.

⁴⁶Sofair, "Completion Report of Construction Project, Residences (2)," January 1961; and Monthly Narrative Report, February 1960.

⁴⁷Sofair, "Completion Report of Construction Project, Residences (2)," January 1961; and Monthly Narrative Report, January 1961.

⁴⁸Sofair, "Completion Report Narrative," n.d.

⁴⁹Sofair, "Completion Report Narrative"; and Monthly Narrative Report, June 1960.

⁵⁰Sofair, "Completion Report of Construction Project," March 15, 1961.

⁵¹Daniel J. Tobin, Jr., "Completion Report of Construction Project," December 4, 1961.

⁵²Monthly Narrative Reports, September 1960 and May 1961.

⁵³Garland J. Gordon, "Completion Report Narrative, Entrance Sign," July 23, 1963.

⁵⁴Memorandum, Berrett to Baker, April 29, 1957.

⁵⁵George Baggley, "Report on Field Study for an Access Road Proposed by Iowa Conservation Commission Across Sny—Magill Tract, Effigy Mounds National Monument" (National Park Service, August 6, 1958), passim.

⁵⁶Monthly Narrative Reports, June 1959 and August 1959; and letter, John F. Alton, Acting Regional Chief of Operations, to Chief, Eastern Office of Design and Construction, May 5, 1961.

⁵⁷Letter, W.A. Elkins, Acting Regional Director, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, to the Iowa Conservation Commission, March 4, 1959; and Special Use Permit No. FW-34-D. See also memorandum, Baggley to Tobin, January 2, 1959.

⁵⁸In 1966, the National Park Service objected to the mooring of boats in the slough near the boat ramp. The state, noting that the Service could refuse to renew the special use permit, ordered the boats removed. See letter, Superintendent Stuart Maule to Everett B. Speaker, Director, Iowa Conservation Commission, October 12, 1965; letter, Gary Ackerman, District Fisheries Super visor, to K.M. Madden, July 11, 1966; and letter, Madden to Maule, July 29, 1966.

⁵⁹Tobin, "Completion Report of Construction Project," March 9, 1960.

⁶⁰Tobin, "Completion Report of Construction Project, Trail and Signs, North Area," March 15, 1962.

⁶¹See telegram, Baggley to Superintendent [Stuart Maule], Effigy Mounds National Monument, May 24, 1965; and memorandum, Maule to Regional Director [Lemuel Garrison], Midwest Region, May 25, 1965.

⁶²National Park Service Contract CX6000-3-0044, $7,020.

⁶³National Park Service Contract CX6000-3-0112, September 29, 1983, $41,500.00; and memorandum, Maintenance Worker Bernard J. Carnicle to Contracting Officer, Midwest Region, February 29, 1984.

⁶⁴National Park Service Contract CX6000-4-0018, $8,957.00.

⁶⁵National Park Service Contract CX6000-3-0089, $12,226.00.

⁶⁶Notice of Award, September 22, 1981, $5,435.

⁶⁷Notice of Award, June 30, 1986, $20,032.50.

⁶⁸National Park Service Contract CX6000-3-0014, $13,555.00.

⁶⁹Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract CX6000-4-0014, December 13, 1983, $118,368.02.

⁷⁰National Park Service Contract CX6000-7-0042, $43,832.00; memorandum, Chief of Maintenance Tom Sinclair to Architect Michael Fees, Midwest Region, January 30, 1987; and James David to author, February 18, 1989.

⁷¹Letter, Maule to Odell C. Solem, District Planner, Iowa Department of Transportation, August 14, 1978; R.L. Humphrey, "Project Concept Development: Improvement of Iowa 76 in the Vicinity of Effigy Mounds National Monument," October 1978; and Fact File, Effigy Mounds National Monument.

⁷²Notice of Award, National Park Service Contract CX6000-1-0072, $10,023.00.

⁷³National Park Service Contract PX6000-5-0060, August 30, 1985.

⁷⁴Quotation is from letter, Superintendent Thomas Munson to David L. Moeller, District II Fisheries Supervisor, Iowa Conservation Commission, July 13, 1984. Other information in this paragraph is from letter, Moeller to Munson, December 2, 1983; memorandum, Jim David to Jack Strain, Regional Chief of Planning and Environmental Quality, March 26, 1984; and memorandum, Strain to David, April 3, 1984.

⁷⁵Letter, Regional Director Charles H. Odegaard to Larry Wilson, Director, Iowa Conservation Commission, September 14, 1984.

⁷⁶Special Use Permit No. MWR—EFMO—6001—00l, May 21, 1987.