Guilford Courthouse Administrative History

CHAPTER 7:
Endnotes

1 No visitor statistics were compiled at Guilford Courthouse prior to August 1939 when monthly counts were initiated based on numbers of visitors signing the guest register. Fiscal Year 1942 visitation of 12,954 was about average for the pre-war and early war years. The 1943 total of 4,852 reflects the advent of strict gasoline rationing and is the lowest annual visitation ever recorded at Guilford. Alexander R. Stoessen, "The Elixir of War---Greensboro: An Army Town, 1942-1946," unpublished manuscript, 1993, Guilford Courthouse NMP Historical Files; William P. Brandon, Monthly Narrative for March 1943, 2 April 1943, Monthly Narrative File, GUCO; Raleigh C. Taylor, Monthly Narrative for August 1946, 7 September 1946, Monthly Narrative File, GUCO.

2 Public Law 734, "To Abolish the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park Commission and for other purposes, "enacted 9 October 1942, 120-05, GUCO, RG 79, National Archives, microfilm; Historical Listing of National Park Service Officials (Washington: National Park Service, 1991) p. 118. Brandon hoped to establish a Historical Aid position with the lapsed resident Commissioner's salary. This goal was not accomplished until 14 June 1948 when Historical Aid Fred L. Page entered on duty as the park's first employee whose primary responsibilities were interpretive. W.A. Brandon, Monthly Narrative for July 1941, 5 August 1941; R.C. Taylor, Monthly Narrative for June 1948, 15 July 1948, Monthly Narrative File, Guilford Courthouse NMP.

3 R.C. Taylor, Monthly Narratives for January, 1946 and August, 1946, 8 February 1946 and 7 September 1946, Monthly Narrative File, Guilford Courthouse NMP.

4 R.C. Taylor, Monthly Narratives 9 February 1947, 7 June 1947, 7 August 1947, 11 September 1948, 3 March 1949, Monthly Narrative File, GUCO. As this is written, the State has cancelled the loan of the fusil. That weapon had been used unwisely as a major element in the 1975 visitor center's principal permanent exhibit.

5 Herbert E. Kahler to R. C. Taylor, 8 November 1954, Museum Catalog Folder 349, GUCO.

6 Memorandum, Raleigh C. Taylor to Regional Director, 5 December 1954, 612 GUCO, RG 79, National Archives, microfilm; Harold L. Peterson to Chief Historian, 28 January 1955, Museum Catalog Folder 349, GUCO; "General Development Plan Part Of The Master Plan For Guilford Courthouse NMP, Approved 5 July 1938," 600-01, RG 79, Guilford Courthouse NMP, National Archives Cartography Branch.