Bradenton, Fla.
Visited: December 27, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 131 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
The memorial honors the life of Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto as well as his tortuous four-year expedition through the present-day southern United States.
BEAUTY (7/10)
The De Soto N MEM is located amid an upscale residential area along the Gulf Coast of Florida. It [...]
Archive for December, 2004
DeSoto National Memorial
Posted in Uncategorized on December 27, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
Posted in National Historic Site, tagged Celebrity Sighting, Church, Georgia, High School, National Historic Site, Nobel Prize, President, Presidential Site on December 19, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Plains, Ga.
Visited: December 19, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 129 of 353
NPS Website; Maranatha Baptist Church
WHAT IS IT?
Numerous buildings in Plains, Georgia, the boyhood and current home of the 39th U.S. president, Jimmy Carter. The Site celebrates Carter’s life as well as life in a typical rural southern town.
BEAUTY (3/10)
Buildings are simple and only as large as [...]
Andersonville National Historic Site
Posted in National Historic Site, tagged Auschwitz, Civil War, Georgia, Hell, National Historic Site, Prison, Prisoner of War Camp on December 19, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Andersonville, Ga.
Visited: December 19, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 130 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
Site of the infamous Civil War prison camp officially named Fort Sumter but known in the North as Andersonville. The Park also includes the National Prisoner of War Museum.
BEAUTY (3/10)
While in operation, Andersonville was a real life vision of hell, eerily resembling the [...]
Ocmulgee National Monument
Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Macon, Ga.
Visited: December 18, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 128 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Earthen mounds, presumably built about 1,000 years ago by the Mississippian Indian culture.
BEAUTY (6/10)
The Ocmulgee Mounds vary greatly in size, shape and function. The Earthlodge is small and conical with a wide base and a low ceiling reminiscent of the lodges [...]
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
Posted in National Military Park, tagged Battlefield, Civil War, Georgia, Holograms, Monuments, Tennessee on December 16, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. and Chattanooga, Tenn.
Visited: December 16, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 127 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
The Site consists of two separate Parks commemorating two different battles. The Chickamauga Battlefield remembers of one of the bloodiest battles of the U.S. Civil War. The Battle of Lookout Mountain, fought a month later on October 28, 1863, [...]
United States Space and Rocket Center
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Huntsville, Ala.
Visited: December 14, 2004
NPS Site Visited: Not an NPS Site
Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
NASA facility where, from 1950 to 1970, Wernher von Braun and his fellow pioneering rocket scientists designed the United States space fleet, satellites as well as terrestrial missile rockets. The Site remains an important NASA facility while opening its doors for tourism [...]
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Tuskegee, Ala.
Visited: December 13, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 125 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
The airstrip and hangar where the first African American Air Force pilots, navigators and bombardiers were trained for service in World War II.
BEAUTY (2/10)
The temporary Visitor Center is located in a trailer and a rusty barbed-wire fence cordons off the still-working [...]
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park
Posted in National Military Park, tagged Alabama, Andrew Jackson, Creek War, Indian Wars, War of 1812 on December 13, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
near Dadeville, Ala.
Visited: December 13, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 126 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
The site of the March 1814 Battle between the Red Stick Creeks and the Andrew Jackson-led Tennessee militia.
BEAUTY (5/10)
The Site is located along the horseshoe bend of the Tallapoosa River in central Alabama. The rural setting is charming. A 3-mile [...]
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site
Posted in National Historic Site, tagged African-American Histor, Alabama, Booker T Washington, George Washington Carver, House Tour, University, WEB DuBois on December 13, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Tuskegee, Ala.
Visited: December 13, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 124 of 353
NPS Website; University Website
WHAT IS IT?
The grounds of the University that Booker T. Washington literally built from the ground up. The Site celebrates the life and accomplishments of both Washington and George Washington Carver, who spent over 40 years of his life teaching at Tuskegee Institute. [...]
National Voting Rights Museum
Posted in Uncategorized on December 12, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Selma, Ala.
Visited: December 11, 2004
NPS Site Visited: Not an NPS Site
Local Website NPS Selma to Montgomery Historic Trail Website
WHAT IS IT?
A small museum founded by Alabamans who faced the police and attack dogs on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on “Bloody Sunday” and later participated in the Selma-Montgomery march for freedom. The Site commemorates those fateful [...]
