ASLA and HALS Background
Welcome to your opportunity to participate in sharing and researching your favorite historic designed, natural, or cultural landscape in South Carolina.
Background Information
Check out the resources available online to assist in this effort.
Here check out the side tab for "HALS Chapter Liaisons." The blue link in the narrative for "ASLA HALS Guidelines" will open a document that explains ASLA's role in HALS, the Dues and Responsibilities of HALS Liaisons. The blue link for "HALS Chapter Liaisons" in the narrative will take you to a contact list of liaisons. Your contact information will be added to this list when it is updated. Also check out the "HALS 101" and "Preparing a HALS History" brochures as well as the "HALS Short Form History Template" under the "HALS Toolkit" section.
Basically the Guidelines and the "HALS 101" and "Preparing a HALS History" brochures as well as the "HALS Short Form History Template" are repeated here as they are on the ASLA HALS webpage
Search here for all of your state's HABS/HAER/HALS documentation that has been completed. You can download everything at high resolutions - completely copyright free! When you or anyone from your state donates drawings, historical reports, and or large-format photographs to HALS, their documents will be transmitted to the Library and end up here.
This is a shortened version of a format for documenting the history. You will note that it is different from the National Register Guidelines allowing for recognizing sites of memory that may have lost considerable integrity over the years, especially relevant to cultural landscapes.