Fort Ward Park
Issues
2010-04 Fort Ward Observer Vol2 Issue2[doc]
2010-04-23 SHA letter on management Ft Ward[doc]
2010-04-05 Archaeology RFP final[doc]
2010-03 Graveyards – Ft Ward Park 1[jpg]
2010-03 Graveyards – Ft Ward Park 2[jpg]
2010-03 Graveyards – Ft Ward Park 3[jpg]
2010-03 Graveyards – Ft Ward Park 4[jpg]
2010-02-23 Snow storm damages Cemetery[doc]
2010-01-28 Agenda for meeting re storm water in park[doc]
2010-01-18 Fort Ward Observer Vo 2 no 1[doc]
2009-11-07 Highlights of Ft Ward history[doc]
2009-10-14 Fort Ward Observer Vo 1 no 2[doc]
2009-06-19 Resolution establishing Advisory Grou[pdf]
2009-03-27 Citizen letter to City re park study[doc]
Nan's Notes
2010-05-13 A public meeting on the plans for Fort Ward Park was held at the same time as the SHA monthly meeting. SHA had sent a letter with recommendations for the Advisory Group and will continue to press on matters included in the April 23 letter.
2010-04-08 The SHA President prepared a letter to the Fort Ward Advisory Group regarding management of the park. It asked that a Board Member become an official member of the Advisory Group, thanked the City for improvements in park uses, and expressed more than three concerns that City staff has not included the public in decisions about plans, that no development of a mission statement, and that continuing flooding problems.
2010-03-23 Ft. Ward Advisory Group meeting including presentations by museum curator Susan Cumbey about interpretive themes and exhibits and the dearth of funding and staffing. The museum staff noted a need to better accommodate busses in the parking lot. Beginning April 3, City staff will supervise the park patrons on weekends.
2010-03-20 Special meeting of the Ft. Ward Advisory Group at which City managers—Jim Spengler and Lance Mallamo—addressed the challenges their departments face in managing Fort Ward Park.
2010-01-28 Citizens met with Vice Mayor Kerry Donley about the water problems in Ft. Ward Park, especially impacting the cemetery of the Oakland Baptist Church.
2010-01-28: Thursday, January 28 meeting about water problems in the park that impact neighboring residential property. Vice Mayor Kerry Donely plans to attend: 7:30 pm at Glenn Eugster’s home, 4022 Ellicott Street, Alexandria.
2009-12-05: Preliminary results of a ground penetrating radar survey at Fort Ward Park and its African American neighborhood indicated 31 possible burial locations outside the fences of the Oakland Cemetery, according to the City’s Office of Historic Alexandria.
Links
1983 Map - arboretum at Ft Ward
2008-07 Ft Ward Maintenance Center[pdf]
2008-10-16 Contractor recommendations[pdf]
