Description: Cultural landscapes are a geographic area (including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife or domestic animals therein), associated with a historic event, activity, or person exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values. These resources would include features such as: a plantation, an historic trail, a historic park or preserve, designed landscapes (formal gardens), vernacular landscapes (mill site and associated features), battlefields, cemeteries, rural historic districts, prison camps, mooring locations, etc. These resources have contributing elements which may consist of built or natural features. The polygon should represent the larger cultural landscape boundary itself. Contributing elements to the larger cultural landscape should be included in the appropriate data layer for each element: historic building, historic structure, archaeological site, or ethnographic resource. If a contributing element to a landscape does not fit within these defined cultural resource type categories, they can be included in the Other Cultural Resource data layers, with the specification of what type of feature they represent recorded.
Copyright Text: Great Smoky Mountains National Park