NPSHistory.com keeps the administrative histories, handbooks and reports for Guilford Courthouse National Military Park.
📚 Learn More at NPSHistory.com →Guilford Courthouse NMP in NC preserves a piece of American history that the public has trusted the National Park Service to protect and interpret. The exhibit panels at this site have been developed over years by historians, subject-matter experts, and park staff — and are now being reviewed under Secretary's Order 3431.
The administration has ordered revised content that includes the language: “temporary exhibits”, “additional context”, “additional context”, and “additional context”.
Why this matters: The specific language being targeted at Guilford Courthouse NMP — including “temporary exhibits” — is historically accurate content developed by professional historians and park staff. When this language is revised or removed, visitors lose access to the documented record of what happened here.
The interpretive panels in the visitor center are nearly 25 years old. The panels and the desplayed museum objects have not been changed/edited or rotated since the 225th anniversary of the siging of the Declaration of Independance nearly 25 years ago.
To supplement the out of date experience, staff created “temporary exhibits” (laminated 8.5x11 sheets of paper) to provide visitor with some additional context for the out of date exhibits/panels. They created 5 “additional context” panels and one introductory panel that provides some context for the “additional context” panels. The introductory panel also encourages visitors to engage a ranger if they have questions about the “additional context” panels.
Generally, the public has been receptive to the temporary panels, so it would be our preference to leave them up. These are being submitted out of an abundance of caution. If they're determine to be in conflict with the EO/SO, we'd simply take them down. They're taped to the wall.
The link below will lead you to a shared one drive folder belonging to the supervisory park ranger. It contains images of the temporary panels and the permenant panels for context.
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