Guilford Courthouse National Military Park Conservation

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park preserves the site of the March 15, 1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse, a pivotal engagement in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution. The landscape is also significant to the history of preservation in the United States. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the Guilford Battleground Company worked to preserve the battlefield and created a commemorative landscape of monuments and graves honoring individuals and events associated with the battle and the broader American Revolution. In 1917, Guilford Courthouse became the first Revolutionary War battlefield established as a national park.

EverGreene was engaged to assess 28 monuments within this historically significant landscape. Conservators conducted on-site investigations and documented each monument through photography and written condition assessments, using elevated access where necessary to closely examine larger monuments. The findings were synthesized into a Monument Conservation Plan that established treatment recommendations and a 5-year maintenance and treatment plan for the site. Through this work, the project provided a framework for the continued stewardship of both the individual monuments and the larger commemorative landscape they define.