Historic Places
Along the Georgia-Florida Coast
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1925
This site, by the National Park Service, is a travel itinerary that helps us understand key developments in America's past: encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, European settlement, plantation agriculture, and African American culture. Learn about more than 50 historic forts, churches, plantations, camps, cemeteries, districts, and monuments.
Parks as Classrooms
http://www.nps.gov/learn/
Here you´ll find curriculum, fun and games, a guide to park Junior Ranger programs and a host of other fun and educational media created by the National Park Service and our partners. (www.nps.gov)
Devils Tower National Monument
http://www.newyoming.com/DevilsTower/
Devils Tower National Monument is located in northeastern Wyoming, in beautiful Crook County. The Tower and the surrounding 1,347 acres were designated as our nation´s first National Monument by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1906. (www.newyoming.com)
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
http://www.ut.blm.gov/monument/
A dramatic, multi-hued landscape that is rich in natural and human history. Extending across 1.9 million acres of Utah public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the Monument represents a unique combination of archaeological, historical, paleontological, geological, and biological resources. (www.ut.blm.gov)
Hadrian´s Wall
http://www.hadrians-wall.org
The most important monument built by the Romans in Britain. Designated a World Heritage Site in 1987, Hadrian´s Wall ranks alongside the Taj Mahal and other treasures of the great wonders of the world. (www.hadrians-wall.org)
Rome´s Imperial Forums
http://www.capitolium.org
The official website of the Roman Imperial Forums (www.capitolium.org)
Teaching with Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/descrip.htm
A series of classroom-ready lesson plans that use historic sites to explore American history. (www.cr.nps.gov)
Development pressures threaten historic St. Augustine:
Florida Office of Cultural and Historical Programs - http://www.flheritage.com/
City of Augustine: Department of Heritage Tourism - http://www.historicstaugustine.com/
Citizens for the Preservation of St. Augustine - http://www.cpsa-staug.org/
Heritage Tourism Assessment & Recommendations for St. Augustine - http://www.ci.st-augustine.fl.us/pressreleases/7_03/ht_study.pdf
Castillo De San Marco National Monument - http://www.nps.gov/casa/index.htm
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