Analysis and Planning Honor Award for the Lower Howard's Creek Corridor Management Plan
Link to the ASLA 2007 Awards Page for Lower Howard's Creek
In 2005, CRA, along with Parsons Brinckerhoff and Ned Crenshaw, developed a Corridor Management Plan for the Lower Howards Creek Valley in Clark County, Kentucky. This plan was prepared for the Clark County Fiscal Court and the Winchester Heritage Commission, as well as the Friends of Lower Howards Creek. This comprehensive plan was designed to protect and preserve historic properties that are present there and to generate strategies to guide the management, protection, and understanding of the Lower Howard’s Creek valley.
Specifically, CRA contributed to developing goals to enhance the historic and cultural resources of the Lower Howard's Creek valley; manage scenic and natural resources in the valley; preserve viewsheds in the valley; assist economic development through tourism and visitor services; and form partnerships with other regional heritage-themed venues. Several of the ways in which the plan outlined how these goals are to be accomplished include conducting an inventory to locate and document cultural, vegetative, and geological features, systems, and communities that describe and analyze the range of resources in the area; evaluating the significance and integrity of the cultural resources to determine appropriate future treatment options; developing a comprehensive list of interpretive themes that can be told using the various resources in the valley; and evaluating and prioritizing sites and features within the valley.
In 2007, the Lower Howard's Creek Corridor Management Plan received the ASLA "Analysis and Planning Honor Award." Since that time, CRA has been closely involved in the execution of the management plan by continuing to locate and inventory cultural resources within the Lower Howards Creek valley, as well as evaluating the significance and integrity of these resources. In addition, more comprehensive archaeological investigations have been conducted at one of the archaeological sites, and these excavations, several of which included volunteers from the public, contributed important information with regard to the turn-of-the-nineteenth-century industrial landscape and the lifeways of the former residents and workers who lived there.
