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Director's Office Correspondence and Subject Files of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, 1954-1986

Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

Contains correspondence and subject files belonging to Parke Rouse, Jr., the first executive director of the Jamestown Festival Park, and later the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. In addition, Rouse served as director of the Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission. Includes correspondence, news releases, clippings, programs, minutes, maps, reports, publications, bylaws, contracts, invitations, speeches, financial records, lists, photographs, questionnaires, blueprints, budgets, plans, memorandums, and other sundry items. These files document the planning and commemoration of Virginia's 350th Anniversary, Virginia's Independence Bicentennial, and the Yorktown Bicentennial. In addition, there is information on First Assembly Day, the George Washington Bicentennial Center (Alexandria, Va.), the Western Virginia Bicentennial Center (Charlottesville, Va.), the Bicentennial Council of the Thirteen Original States, and the Yorktown Victory Center.

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