National Parks Traveler
When the Secretary of the Interior issued an order on October 13, 1944, instructing the National Park Service to administer the Atlanta Campaign National Historic Site, it could scarcely have been an occasion for an NPS celebration (not to mention that World War II was raging at the time). You’d have to have been at least one full bubble off plumb to really believe that a scattered collection of interpretive picnic pavilions belonged in the National Park System, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Yellowstone National Park and Gettysburg National Military Park.
What does the federal government do with a property like this? Just what you think it does. On September 21, 1950, Congress abolished the Atlanta Campaign NHS and transferred ownership to the state of Georgia.