HART 3765W - Monuments and Memorials, 1900 to Present - Worsnick

In 1904, the American Historical Association, itself a fledgling professional body, established the semi-autonomous Conference of State and Local Historical Societies to serve the leaders of those agencies. In 1939, a group of Conference members, chaired by Christopher C. Crittenden, director of the North Carolina Department of Archives and History, discussed and then proposed the creation of an independent entity. Its job would be to better coordinate the activities of historical societies and stimulate the writing and teaching of state and local history in North America.

Established in 1968 and renamed in 1975, Historic Nashville, Inc. (HNI) is a nonprofit membership organization with the mission to promote and preserve the historic places that make Nashville unique.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources.

The State Historic Sites of the Tennessee Historical Commission represent some of our state's most important historic places.