Show GUARDIANS OF PAST hallowed Hali owed sites preserved in national park system features national park service has become one of the great trustees of american history and tradition in the system of national parks today are more than 80 sites hallowed by the events that have transpired there or by deeds which have been memorial iced in marble and stone almost every phase of americas past finds expression in one or more of these sacred areas where national park service is endeavoring to present amen ameri can history in a simple straightforward manner in order that it may be readily under and correctly interpreted by every vis aitor 0 at most of the more important sites a program of educational ice to the public has national parks been fished with tenal tenth competent in a series historians in c charge h a r 9 e guides will be found in many of the areas as well as museums with interprets inter preta live tive and study collections at other hareas areas guide service has been sup ted or supplanted by self ex placatory plan atory maps literature outdoor signs and trailside exhibits historic sites in the national park system tall fall roughly into six differ ent groups or periods colonial revolutionary era of the early re public war between the states winning of the west and the recent age of industrial expansion THE COLONIAL period Is depre dented by the castillo de san marcos and fort matanzas national bonu ments at st augustine fla fort raleigh national historic site in north carolina colonial national historical park in virginia fort frederica Fred enca national monument in georgia george washington birth place national monument in virgin la ia and fort necessity national bat blefield tie tle field site in pennsylvania the castillo de san marcos boated and bastioned was be gun in the lath century to defend the oldest settlement made by europeans on land now in eluded within the united states from the battlements of this fort today one may look across matan zas inlet and arid out to sea wi with th a b bit 1 t of imagination one may see there the proud galleons homeward bound to spam spain with the treasures of peru or the golden hind which brought sir francis drake in 1586 to alun der the spanish town or the ships of general oglethorpe who in 1740 laid siege to st augustine on roanoke island to the north on what is now the coast of north carolina is the site of sir walter raleigh s lost colony here each summer is presented in pageantry the drama of the ill fated first at tempt of the english to plant a col ony on the north american conti nent still further north on jamestown island in virginia is the site of the first permanent english settlement fort frederica Fred enca national monument on st simon s island georgia rep 4 CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS oldest U S defense resents the english struggle with the spanish for dominion of the south atlantic coast on the banks of the potomac riv er in virginia Is george washing to ton s birthplace national monument and in pennsylvania near farming ton a reconstructed pioneer fortify cation marks the site of fort feces sl sity ty and the scene of the opening battle of the french and indian war THE GREAT revolutionary war battlefields of saratoga in new york and yorktown 0 o 0 virginia are in eluded in the national park system as well as the site of washington s winter encampments at morristown Morns town N J other important revolutionary battlefield sites in the national park system are white plains in new york guilford courthouse and moore moores s creek in north carolina kings mountain and cowpens in south carolina 0 0 LISTED AMONG the more in te resting and significant sites which belong to the first 75 years of the republic are fort mchenry na dional monument and historic shrine at baltimore md birthplace of the star spangled banner the lee mansion national memorial at ar lington va which was the home of gen robert E lee and Is typical of the plantation days of the old south of interest also Is the birthplace of abraham lincoln near hodgen ville ky here at abraham lincoln national historical park in a mag ent memorial building is pre served what Is thought to be the log cabin in which lincoln was born NEARLY ALL of the great battle fields of the war between the states are now under jurisdiction of na dional park service by visiting them in 1 chronological succession one may acquire a thorough understanding of the events of this vast internal struggle the better known battles of this war of which the sites are included in the national park system are the first and second battles of 3 el N 04 gettysburg dedicated to peace manassas in northern virginia an in maryland gettysburg in pennsylvania shiloh in tennessee vicksburg in mississippi chicka mauga and the atlanta campaign in georgia chattanooga in tennessee and fredericksburg chancellors ville Spott sylvania richmond petersburg and appomattox in vir ginia 0 0 THE GREAT WESTWARD move ment began long before the war be tween the states and continued for many decades after in this phase of history one finds in the national park system the jefferson national expansion memorial at st louis lows mo the meriwether Men wether lewis national monument in tennessee which con bains the grave of the explorer who led the lewis and dark clark expedition through the northwest to the pacific coast and the scotts bluff national monument in nebraska a famous landmark on the oregon trail there are also the frontier mill tary posts of fort laramie in wyo ming and pipe springs in arizona the site of the whitman massacre in wash washington ington and the site of cus ter s last stand in montana in the west also in the black hills of south dakota is the abaz ing memorial carved in the granite of mount rushmore to the memory of the tour four presidents washington jefferson lincoln and theodore roosevelt representing MORE recent times are the statue of liberty na dional monument in new york har bor the memorial at kill devil hill north carol na marking the sit site of the first airplane flight by the wright brothers the vanderbilt mansion and the home of franklin D roosevelt at Hy Hyda Park N Y representing the world of 0 tomorrow is the proposed nation al monument to mark the site of the first atom bomb explosion in new II mexico exico the most recently acquired na dional historic site is the adams mansion at quincy mass this mansion a part of which dates bach back to 1739 aas has been the home of two presidents and many statesmen and writers and its history flows con tenuously through the whole v ole amer ican lean scene from earliest days of the republic to the present 0 0 A complete list of national his tone sites may be obtained by writ ing the director national park service department of the interior washington 25 D C |