A consultant that meets the Secretary of the Interiors Qualifications as a historian will be contracted to help scope, organize, and execute this project. The consultant will lead two public meetings, one at the beginning of the project explaining the goals of the project, including intensive-level survey process, historic building research, primary and secondary resources, local and state Underground Railroad historic contexts, the National Register, and levels and criteria of significance, and one at the end of the project, presenting the findings of the project. Volunteer teams may conduct other public town hall meetings in Muscatine, West Liberty, and Atalissa to further gather public input about anti-slavery and Underground Railroad activities and sites in Muscatine County and to develop a historic context for anti-slavery and UGRR activities in Muscatine and Muscatine County, with up to 10 sites with extant resources to be documented on Iowa Site inventory forms and other sites recorded in the survey report. The survey project will contribute to the ongoing Iowa Freedom Trail project, and the historic context will provide a framework for potential future applications for Network to Freedom sites in Muscatine and Muscatine County. This intensive survey will unify the numerous prior reports and expand on the historical record of these resources into a single comprehensive survey of the Underground Railroad in Muscatine and Muscatine County. The intensive survey will create updated site inventory forms for the following six resources currently listed in the Iowa Freedom Trail Inventory of Places: Muscatine, IA Questions regarding this request for proposals or for additional project information contact April Limburg at 563-262-4141 or by email at alimburg@muscatineiowa.gov. The method of Contractor Selection has not been Determined at this time.
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