Fort Scott National Historic Site

Fort Scott, Kans.
Visited: September 2, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 246 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Partially restored and partially reconstructed U.S. Army Fort that played a role in the 1840’s Indian frontier, the 1848 Mexican War, 1850’s Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War.
BEAUTY (4/10)
Fort Scott looks more pompous that practical, more ostentatious than utilitarian. Its [...]

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Flight 93 National Memorial

near Shanksville, Pa.
Visited: September 7, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 248 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
Four years ago a plane carrying 40 people crashed into a rural Pennsylvania field located adjacent to an abandoned strip mine. It is unnecessary to elaborate; the events of September 11 2001 are etched indelibly into our collective psyche.
In September 2002, Congress [...]

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Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield

Springfield, Mo.
Visited: September 1, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 244 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Site of an August 10, 1861 battle, the first major Civil War fight west of the Mississippi River.
BEAUTY (3/10)
The Battlefield is located on an anonymous southwestern Missouri field, about 10 miles from downtown Springfield. A shallow, slow-moving creek meanders its way [...]

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George Washington Carver National Monument

Diamond, Mo.
Visited: September 1, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 245 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website

WHAT IS IT?
The birthplace and boyhood home of George Washington Carver, one of America’s greatest inventors and one of her most remarkable men.
BEAUTY (6/10)
The George Washington Carver National Monument landscape is calming, quiet and lends towards introspection. From the VC, the Carver Trail [...]

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