Experience
Legacy 106, Inc. offers more than 35-years of local San Diego experience
in the study and evaluation of historic and archaeological resources.
Our in-house expertise brings the experience of twenty-four years
of CEQA environmental review for legal compliance, management of a
National Park Service Certified Local Government, eighteen months
of management of the Fort Rosecrans Historic District at Naval Base
Point Loma, and a high success rate for historic landmark nomination
to the City of San Diego, Historic Resource Board. The staff has conducted
historic and archaeological work in southern California, western Arizona,
and northern Baja California.
Historic
Resources
Legacy
106, Inc. has conducted historic surveys, architectural studies, historic
research and prepared City of San Diego Historic Landmark and National
Register nominations and a National Park Service management overview.
Ronald V. May, RPA, President of Legacy 106, Inc., previously managed
structural evaluation surveys and treatment plan contracts for the
United States Navy on a 1908 brick masonry building, a 1898 large
cast concrete artillery battery, and restoration of a United States
Army Coast Artillery spotlight at a 1915 mortar battery on Point Loma.
Legacy 106, Inc. has also completed an Extended Initial Study, Mitigated
Negative Declaration, and HABS mitigation report to the City of Encinitas
concerning a 1915 Craftsman bungalow.
Resource
Management Plans
Legacy 106 Inc. completed joint authorship of a cultural resource
management overview with Roger Kelley, Ph.D., Western Region, National
Park Service, for Cabrillo National Monument in 2001. Legacy 106,
Inc. advised and guided future revisions of the Cabrillo National
Register Historic District and Fort Rosecrans Historic District boundary
revisions and consolidation into one large district of more than 200
contiguous and non-contiguous contributing properties within the original
Point Loma Military Reservation created by the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo in 1852. Staff at Legacy 106, Inc. brought experience in creating
historic resource conservation areas for County of San Diego community
plans prior to incorporation of Legacy 106, Inc.
Environmental
Studies - CEQA process
Legacy 106, Inc. staff offers significant experience on reviewing
project impacts to environmental resources, traffic studies, acoustical
effects, growth induction, and cumulative effects from prior local
government work. President Ronald V. May, RPA, brings 24-years County
of San Diego environmental review and resource management and 18-months
with the United States Navy in National Environmental Policy Act and
Section 106 review and management of wildlife and historic properties.
He also has nine years experience with other federal, state, and local
agencies in archaeology and history consulting. Legacy 106, Inc. has
served the City of Del Mar by providing input and the City of Encinitas
by preparing Extended Environmental Initial Study and Mitigated Negative
Declaration documents and worked with Sagebrush Consulting, L.L.C.
to carry out HABS mitigation of an 87-year old historic house.
Archaeology
Ronald V. May, RPA, has offered leadership to federal, state, and
local agencies in archaeology since 1968. The California Division
of Highways appointed him District Liaison Archaeologist for District
11 (San Diego County) in 1970 to supervise state and interstate highway
design impact review, conduct field surveys, test excavations, and
he directed two eight-week archaeology salvage projects in the path
of Interstate 8 in 1971 and 1973. He served David D. Smith & Associates
as senior archaeology before entering civil service with the County
of San Diego in 1974. In various capacities in that agency, he reviewed
housing subdivision, highways, water delivery, golf course, and resort
projects for California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) impact review
and oversaw developer-consultant survey, testing, and salvage mitigation
projects. Upon retirement in 1998, he managed historic and archaeology
sites for the United States Navy on Point Loma for eighteen months
before entering private practice. He has authored journal articles,
field archaeology reports, edited publications, and currently serves
on the boards of directors of the American Cultural Resource Association
and Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation.
Historic
Preservation
Legacy 106, Inc. has conducted numerous historic property surveys
in the City of San Diego to research and nominate candidate buildings
as City Historic Landmarks in the communities of Kensington, Mission
Hills, South Park, Golden Hills, and Morley Field in Balboa Park.
Legacy 106, Inc. has advised the City of Del Mar and City of Encinitas
in preparing ordinances and policies for historic preservation. Legacy
106, Inc. has also conducted historic research and reviewed historic
documents for projects in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
Historic
Archaeology
Legacy 106, Inc. has analyzed historic archaeology artifact collections
for Pacific West Archaeology, Inc., Mooney & Associates, and Anteon
Corporation since the year 2000. These include a federal Section 106
impact evaluation on a gas line corridor study along Interstate 10
in Riverside County at the Bucket of Blood Saloon in Desert Center
and a federal Section 106 archaeology mitigation excavation and analysis
of two 1880-1930 historic archaeology features at an elderly care
facility in the City of San Bernardino for Pacific West Archaeology,
Inc. in 2003. Anteon Corporation requested historic artifact analysis
of test samples from twenty-nine historic sites from the 1880-1942
town of Linda Vista at Miramar Marine Corps Air Base in San Diego
County. Mooney & Associates requested historic research and collections
analysis of the Roeslein Homestead along the San Dieguito River in
San Diego County. These large collections were processed for curation
in compliance with federal regulations (36 C.F.R. 67.7).
Ronald
V. May, RPA, President of Legacy 106, Inc. has more than twenty years
experience in historic archaeology excavation, analysis, and report
on (CA-SDI-12,000) Fort Guijarros, an 18th century Spanish cannon
battery, 19th century American whaling station, and early 20th century
U.S. Army Fort Rosecrans on Naval Base Point Loma. Additionally, May
conducted three years of investigations at the Royal Presidio de San
Diego de Alcala with San Diego State University and authored journal
articles and completed a master's thesis on Mexican Majolica ceramics
from the 16th through 20th centuries.
Historic
Research and Archaeology Evaluations
The
Analysis of Historic Artifacts Recovered From The TELACU Project,
San Bernardino, California.
Ronald V. May, RPA, Principal Investigator (619) 269-3924
In National Register of Historic Places Eligibility Evaluation
of Two Features Within CA-SBR-1088H, TELACU Senior Housing Project,
W. 6th Street, City of San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California.
Brian Glenn, M.A, RPA, Pacific West Archaeology, Inc.
Client (760) 765-1289
Awarded: January 23, 2003
Completed: July 31, 2003
Legacy
106, Inc. analyzed over 3,000 historic artifacts recovered by Pacific
West Archaeology from two late 19th century upper middle class households
in San Bernardino, California. The City of San Bernardino and federal
Housing and Urban Development directed Brian Glenn, Pacific West Archaeology,
Inc. to perform Section 106, National Historic Preservation Act archaeology
testing to mitigate the effects of a new elderly housing project.
Legacy 106, Inc. analyzed the collection.
The
Analysis of Historic Artifacts From Desert Center, Riverside, California.
Ronald V. May, RPA, Principal Investigator (619) 269-3924.
In National Register of Historic Places Eligibility Evaluation
of CA-RIV-7019H and CA-RIV-7020H, Within The Southern California Gas
Company Line 103 Gas Line Maintenance Corridor, Desert Center, Riverside
County, California.
Brian Glenn, M.A, RPA, Pacific West Archaeology, Inc.
Client (760) 765-1289
Awarded: January 18, 2003
Completed: February 26, 2003
Brian
Glenn of Pacific West Archaeology, Inc. retained Legacy 106, Inc.
to analyze approximately 1500 artifacts recovered from a fiber optic
cable trenching operation at Desert Center, Riverside County. The
artifacts were associated with a 1930s-1950s saloon and gas station
situated along Interstate 10. The analysis is part of a Section 106,
National Historic Preservation Act, evaluation for the Bureau of Land
Management.
The
Linda Vista Homesteaders On Miramar Mesa: A Test For Local Patterns
of Glocalization in a Rural California Agricultural Community, United
States Marine Corps Air Base, Miramar, California.
Ronald V. May, RPA, Principal Investigator (619) 269-3924
Brian Glenn, M.A., RPA, Pacific West Archaeology, Inc.
Client (760) 765-1289
Awarded: April 15, 2001
Completed: July 31, 2001
Legacy
106, Inc. and Pacific West Archaeology, Inc. contracted with Anteon
Corporation to analyze a large collection of historic artifacts recovered
from more than twenty historic sites within the 1880s-1942 town of
Linda Vista to assist the United States Marine Corps evaluate the
scientific importance pursuant to Section 110, National Historic Preservation
Act, for an up-coming Integrated Cultural Regional Management Plan.
Cabrillo
Background Study, Reference Requisition Number #P8098000010, National
Park Service, Western Regional Office, San Francisco, California.
In Shadows of the Past: Cabrillo National Monument, Archaeology
Overview Management Plan. Ronald V. May, RPA, Principal Investigator
(619) 269-3924
Roger Kelly, Ph.D.
Client (501) 817-1300
Awarded: August 17, 2000
Completed: September 29, 2000
The National
Park Service awarded a contract to Legacy 106, Inc. to prepare five
chapters to be included in Shadows of the Past at Cabrillo National
Monument by Roger Kelly and Ronald V. May, which the National Park
Service published in 2001. This document is a management overview
of all federal lands on Point Loma with a long-term view toward consolidating
all historic districts into one or more historic districts of contiguous
and non-contiguous historic properties that would span the entire
Point Loma Military Reservation, Fort Rosecrans, and United States
Navy facilities and archaeological sites. The study brought together
a number of reports prepared for various Navy commands and synthesized
how all the National Register eligible properties could be interpreted
in a future expansion of Cabrillo National Monument over the Point
Loma Military Reservation.
The
Roeslein Homestead on the San Dieguito River: A Test at CA-SDI-316
for Local Patterns of Glocalization in a Rural California Agricultural
Community.
Ronald V. May, RPA, Principal Investigator (619) 269-3924
Richard Carrico, M.A.
Client (858) 578-8964
Awarded: May 31, 2000
Completed: February 21, 2001
Richard
Carrico, Mooney Associates, retained the services of Legacy 106, Inc.
to analyze historic artifacts recovered at CA-SDI-316 during Section
106, National Historic Preservation Act, and evaluations for the United
States Army Corps of Engineers. Starwood Development Company, golf
course construction, and realignment of the San Dieguito River threatened
this site collection.
