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Show GUARDIANS Or PAST fallowed Sites Preserved In National Park System WNU 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 memorialized memorial-ized in marble and stone. Almost every phase of America's past finds expression in one or more of these sacred areas, where National Park service is endeavoring to present American Ameri-can history in a simple, straightforward manner in order that belong to the first 75 years of the republic are Fort McHenry national na-tional monument and historic shrine at Baltimore, Md., birthplace of the "Star Spangled Banner," the Lee mansion national memorial at Arlington, 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, Hodgen-ville, Ky. Here at Abraham Lincoln national historical park in a magnificent mag-nificent memorial building is preserved pre-served what is thought to be 'Jie log cabin in which Lincoln was born. i NEARLY ALL of the great battlefields battle-fields of the War Between the Slates are now under jurisdiction of National Na-tional Park service. By visiting them in chronological chrono-logical succession one may acquire ac-quire a thorough understanding of the events of this vast internal inter-nal 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 correctly interpreted by every visitor. vis-itor. At most of the more important sites a program of educational serv-i serv-i c e to the public has National Parks been estab- T n niL lished with Te,"h competent In a Series historians in charge. Guides will be found in many of the areas as well as museums with interpretative interpreta-tive and study collections. At other areas guide service has been supplemented sup-plemented or supplanted by self-explanatory maps, literature, outdoor signs and trailside exhibits. Historic sites in the national park system fall roughly into six different differ-ent groups or periodsColonial, Revolutionary, Era of the Early Republic, Re-public, War Between the States, Winning of the West and the recent Age of Industrial Expansion. THE COLONIAL period is represented repre-sented by the Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas national monuments monu-ments at St. Augustine, Fla., Fort Raleigh national historic site in North Carolina, Colonial national historical park in Virginia, Fort Frederica national monument in Georgia, George Washington birthplace birth-place national monument in Virginia Virgin-ia and Fort Necessity national battlefield bat-tlefield site in Pennsylvania. The Castillo de San Marcos, moated and bastioned, was begun be-gun in the 17th century to defend de-fend the oldest settlement made by Europeans on land now included in-cluded within the United Stats. From the battlements of this fort today one may look across Matanzas Matan-zas inlet and out to sea. With a bit of imagination one may see there the proud galleons homeward bound to Spain with the treasures of Peru, or the Golden Hind, which brought Sir Francis Drake in 1586 to plunder plun-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 colony col-ony on the North American continent. conti-nent. Still further north on Jamestown island in Virginia is the site of the first permanent English settlement. Fort Frederica national monument on St. Simon's island, Georgia, rep- St ASWWC ZJH X AUV AWA. vSUuo GETTYSBURG Dedicated to Peace Manassas in northern Virginia, An-tietam An-tietam in Maryland, Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, Shiloh in Tennessee, Vicksburg in Mississippi, Chicfta mauga and the Atlanta campaign in Georgia, Chattanooga in Tennessee, and Fredericksburg, Chancellors-ville, Chancellors-ville, Spottsylvania, Richmond, Petersburg and Appomattox in Virginia. Vir-ginia. ... THE GREAT WESTWARD movement move-ment began long before the War Between 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, Mo., the Meriwether Lewis national monument in Tennessee, which contains con-tains the grave of the explorer who led the Lewis and 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 military mili-tary posts of Fort Laramie in Wyoming Wyo-ming and Pipe Springs in Arizona, the site of the Whitman massacre in Washington and the site of Custer's Cus-ter's last stand in Montana. In the West also, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, is the amazing amaz-ing memorial carved in the granite of Mount Rushmore to the memory of the four presidents, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodor Roosevelt. ... REPRESENTING MORE recent times are the Statue of Liberty national na-tional monument in New York harbor, har-bor, the memorial at Kill Devil hill, North Carolina, marking the lite of the first airplane flight by the Wright brothers, the Vanderbilt mansion and the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N. Y. Representing the world of tomorrow to-morrow Is the proposed national nation-al monument to mark the site of the first atom bomb explosion explo-sion in New Mexico. The most recently acquired national na-tional historic site is the Adams mansion at Quincy, Mass. This mansion, a part of which dates back to 1739, has been the home of two presidents and many statesmen and writers, and its history flows continuously con-tinuously through the whole American Amer-ican scene from earliest days of the republic to the present. A complete list of national historic his-toric sites may be obtained by writing writ-ing the Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington 25, D. C. 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 river riv-er in Virginia is George Washington's Washing-ton's birthplace national. monument, and In Pennsylvania, near Farming-ton, Farming-ton, a reconstructed pioneer fortification fortifi-cation marks the site of Fort Necessity Neces-sity 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 in Virginia are in- i eluded in the national park system j as well as the site of Washington's winter encampments at Morristown, N. J. Other important Revolutionary battlefield sites in the national park system are: White Plains in New York, Guilford courthouse and Moore's creek in North Carolina, Kings mountain and Cowpens in South Carolina. LISTED AMONG the more interesting in-teresting and significant sites which |