V. Historic Preservation and cultural values. A cultural value is a contribution made by an historic property to a cultural system. Amish culture, for example, presents a distinctive cultural landscape featuring large clean farms without electrical powered facilities, special patterns of land use and architecture, and artifacts like horse-drawn buggies, clothing styles. While interesting for outsiders, the cultural landscape is fundamentally important to the Amish themselves, being a physical embodiment of their society. B. Traditional and non-Traditional values.
Traditional values have historical depth.
A non-traditional value has little or no historical depth. Thus a mountain may be seen as sacred by a native-American group. It has been for many generations, and is traditional. A recently established utopian group may also view a mountain top as sacred, but it does not have historical depth, and is not traditional.