Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
San Antonio, Texas
Visited: February 27, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 161 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website; Alamo Website
WHAT IS IT?
Four of the five 18th-century Spanish missions that served as the foundation for the city of San Antonio and for the spread of Spanish life and Catholicism in the western portion of the New World. The fifth and [...]
Posted in National Historical Park on February 26, 2005 | 1 Comment »
near Johnson City, Texas.
Visited: February 24, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 160 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website; LBJ State Historic Park Website
WHAT IS IT?
Two sites located 14 miles apart in the rural Texas hill country that tell the life story of our 36th president, Lyndon Baines Johnson. The Johnson City portion includes his boyhood home and commemorates [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Austin, Texas
Visited: February 23, 2005
NPS Site Visited: Not an NPS Site
Presidential Library Visted: 7 of 12
Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
The Presidential Library and Museum of our 36th president, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
BEAUTY (2/10)
The LBJ Library is an unbearably ugly eight-story travertine structure. It looks like a giant white version of the nightstand that budget hotels put between [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Natchez, Miss.
Visited: February 17, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 158 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
The National Park Service entry into the Natchez, Mississippi antebellum (pre-Civil War) home tourism industry. The Natchez NHP two tour-able Units are Melrose, an attorney’s lavish estate, and the William Johnson House. Johnson was a freed black man who worked as a barber.
BEAUTY [...]
Posted in National Military Park, tagged Battlefield, Civil War, Mississippi, Monuments, Ulysses S Grant on February 17, 2005 | 6 Comments »
Vicksburg, Miss.
Visited: February 17, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 157 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Site of Union Army’s May 18, 1863 to July 4, 1863 siege. The South’s surrender of Vicksburg gave the Union forces complete control of the Mississippi River.
BEAUTY (4/10)
Vicksburg NMP is shaped like the number 7 and contains over 1,700 acres. This [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
near Epps, La.
Visited: February 16, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 156 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website; Video Website
WHAT IS IT?
Gigantic and elaborate prehistoric earthworks whose construction began in 1700 BC.
Despite the name and inclusion of Poverty Point NM and SHS on the published list of National Park Sites there are no federal facilities and it is not, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Baldwyn, Miss. and Tupelo, Miss.
Visited: February 15, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 154 and 155 of 353
NPS Brices Cross Roads Website; NPS Tupelo Website
WHAT IS IT?
Two tiny Civil War-related National Park Sites commemorating two debatable Confederate victories due largely to the skill of Confederate cavalryman Nathan Bedford Forrest.
BEAUTY (3/10)
Gab thinks that these two Parks are what Battlefield [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2005 | 2 Comments »
from Natchez, Miss. to Nashville, Tenn.
Visited: February 13, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 151 and 152 of 353
NPS Natchez Parkway Website; NPS Scenic Trail Website
WHAT IS IT?
Often called the Great American Road, the Natchez Trace is a two-lane highway with a 45 mph speed limit that travels northeastwardly 444 miles from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee.
BEAUTY (9/10)
The [...]
Posted in National Military Park, tagged Battlefield, Civil Rights, Civil War, Shiloh, Siege, Western Theater on February 13, 2005 | 2 Comments »
part of Shiloh National Military Park
near Corinth, Miss.
Visited: February 13, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 153 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
A newly opened Museum dedicated to explaining both the April 1862 Battle of Shiloh and the April and May Union siege and capture of Corinth, Mississippi, an important railroad center.
BEAUTY (6/10)
The Interpretive Center’s ads, found [...]
Posted in National Military Park, tagged Battlefield, Civil War, Tennessee on February 13, 2005 | 3 Comments »
near Savannah, Tenn.
Visited: February 13, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 153 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
An exceptionally bloody April 1862 battle that finally convinced Americans that the Civil War was going to be long, difficult and increasingly horrifying.
BEAUTY (4/10)
The pleasant woodland, the wide Tennessee River and the Battlefield’s many open fields have changed little in [...]
