Show GUARDIANS OF PAST hallowed sites preserved in national park system mw 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 th the e events teat that have transpired there or by deeds which have been mem memorialized r 1 in marble and stone almost every phase of arr americas past finds expression in one or more of these sacred areas where national park service is endeavoring to present american history in a simple straightforward manner in order that I 1 it may be readily understood and ands 0 correctly interpreted by every visitor at most of the more important sites a program ot of educational service to the public has national parks been dished with tenth competent in a series historians in c h a r g e guides will be found in many of the areas as well as museums with interpretative and study collections at other areas guide service has been supplemented ted or supplanted by self ex placatory plan atory maps literature outdoor signs and trailside exhibits historic sites in the national park system fall roughly into six different nt groups or periods colonial revolutionary era of the early republic war between the states winning of the west and the recent age of industrial expansion THE COLONIAL COLONIA period is represented by b the castillo de san marcos and fort matanzas national monuments 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 national monument in virginia and fort necessity national battlefield tle field site in pennsylvania the castillo de san marcos boated and bastioned was begun gun in the century to defend the oldest settlement made by europeans on land now included within the he united states from the battlements of this tort fort today one may look across matanzas inlet and out to sea with a bit of imagination one may see there the proud galleons gal leons homeward bo bound un d to spain with the treasures of peru or the golden hind which brought sir francis drake in 1586 to plunder 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 raleight Ra leighs lost colony here each summer Is presented in pageantry the drama of the ill fated first attempt of the english to plant a colony on the north american continent still further north on jamestown island in virginia Is the site of the first permanent english settlement fort frederica national monument on st simons island georgia rep 1 11 I 1 1 1 I 1 1 4 t 1 V 1 I I 1 CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS oldest U S defense resents the english struggle with the spanish tor for dominion of the south atlantic coast on the banks of the potomac river in virginia is george birthplace national monument and in pennsylvania near farmington a reconstructed pioneer forti fortification fl marks the site of fort necessity and the scene of the opening battle ol of the french and indian war THE GREAT revolutionary war battlefields of 0 Saratoga in ln new york and yorktown in virginia are included in the national park system as well as the site of washington winter inter encampments encamp ments at morristown N J other important revolutionary battlefield sites in the national park system are white plains in new york guilford Gui llord courthouse and moores creek in north carolina kings mountain and cowpens coppens in south carolina 0 0 0 LISTED AMONG the more interesting te and significant sites which belong to the first 75 years of the republic are fort mchenry national monument and historic shrine at baltimore md birthplace of the star spangled banner the lee mansion national memorial at arlington va which was the home of gen robert E lee and I 1 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 magnificent ent memorial building is preserved what is thought to be the log cabin in which lincoln was born 0 0 0 NEARLY ALL of the great battlefields of the war between the states are now under jurisdiction of national park service by visiting them in 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 gettysburg dedicated to peace manassas in northern virginia antietam in maryland gettysburg in pennsylvania shiloh in tennessee vicksburg in mississippi chickamauga and the atlanta campaign in georgia chattanooga in tennessee and fredericksburg chancellorsville Spott sylvania richmond petersburg and appomattox in virginia THE GREAT WESTWARD movement began long before the war between the states and continued for many decades after in this phase of history one finds in the national park system the jefferson Jef lerson national expansion memorial at st louis mo the meriwether Merl wether lewis national monument in tennessee which contains 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 military posts of fort laram le in wyoming and pipe springs in arizona the site of the whitman massacre in washington and the site of custers last stand in montana in the west also in the black hills of south dakota Is the amazing memorial carved in the granite of mount rushmore to the m memory emory of the tour four presidents washington wash ington jefferson lincoln and theodore theodor roosevelt 0 0 0 representing MORE recent times are the statue of liberty national monument in new york harbor the memorial at kill devil WIL hill north carolina marking the site 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 Re the world of tomorrow ts 15 the proposed national monument to mark the site of the first atom bomb explosion in new mexico the most recently acquired national 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 twe presidents and many statesmen and writers and Us its history flows continuously through the whole amerlean american scene from earliest days of the republic to the present 0 0 0 A complete list of national historic sites may be obtained by writing the director national park service department of the interior washington 25 D C |