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LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address: Hwy 82 historic name:Nez Perce Traditional Site, Wallowa Lake (NHL)(NHP)
Joseph, Wallowa County current/other names:Chief Joseph Cemetery; Joseph National Indian Cemetery
assoc addresses:
block/lot/tax lot:
location descr: twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:3S 45E 5
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:Site height (stories): total elig resources:2 total inelig resources:
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Natl Hist Landmark
prim constr date:1877 second date:1926 date indiv listed:05/15/1965
primary orig use: Cemetery orig use comments:
second orig use: Monument/Marker
primary style: Other / Undefined prim style comments:
secondary style: sec style comments:
primary siding: Granite siding comments:
secondary siding:
plan type: architect:None
builder:None
comments/notes:
Nez Perce 1877 Campaign. Authorized by Congress on May 15, 1965 as a multi-site, multi-state National Historical Park (along with sites in Idaho, Montana, and Washington). Entered in the National Register automatically on October 15, 1966. Became a National Historic Landmark on 05/05/89.
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Not associated with any surveys or groupings.
SHPO INFORMATION FOR THIS PROPERTY
NR date listed: 05/15/1965
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date:
106 Project(s): None
Special Assess Project(s): None
Federal Tax Project(s): None
ARCHITECTURAL / PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
(Includes expanded description of the building/property, setting, significant landscape features, outbuildings and alterations)
Refer to scanned documents links.
HISTORY
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
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RESEARCH INFORMATION
Title Records Census Records Property Tax Records Local Histories
Sanborn Maps Biographical Sources SHPO Files Interviews
Obituaries Newspapers State Archives Historic Photographs
City Directories Building Permits State Library
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