Cultural (Historical) Resource Management

The Environmental Protection Division is responsible for ensuring compliance with historic preservation requirements. The BNL Cultural Resource Management Plan (PDF) identifies and describes the management plans for of all of BNL's cultural resources. These resources include World War I trenches, Civilian Conservation Corps features, World War II buildings, and historic structures, programs and discoveries associated with high energy physics, research reactors, and other science conducted at the Laboratory.

BNL currently has three facilities that have been determined to be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places: the Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor complex, the High Flux Beam Reactor complex, and the World War I training trenches.

• Read the Report of the Construction of Camp Upton (PDF) written in 1918.
• Read the Diary of Matthias Harrington. BNL employee Matthias Harrington graciously authorized the scanning of his grandfather's diary. The handwritten diary presents Matthias Harrington's thoughts and experiences during World War I (1918-1919). Starting in Camp Gordon, Georgia, then a brief stay at Camp Upton, through the war in Europe, and his return to America, his words offer a unique peek into the everyday life of an American soldier during World War I.
• Take a tour of Brookhaven history
• Historic Images
• Camp Upton history
• View the BNL Historic Film-to-Tape Conversion Inventory