Today the famous cables on Half Dome and the trail up Sub Dome
to the cables were placed on the National Register of Historic
Places. This is the official list of the Nation’s historic
places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National
Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s
National Register of Historic Places is part of a program to
coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify,
evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological
resources. There are more than 80,000 properties listed in the
National Register that represent 1.4 million individual
resources – buildings, sites, districts, structures, and
objects. Listing in the National Register is the first step
towards eligibility for National Park Service-administered
federal preservation tax credits that have leveraged more than
$45 billion in private investment and National Park Service
grant programs like Save America’s Treasures and Preserve
America. George Anderson’s first ascent on October 12, 1875