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Show BllflRPIAHS OF PAST Hallowed Sites Preserved In National Park System -'KU Features. - National Park service bec of American history and trad JJ s h evcnts that ! parks today are more than 80 : i osowhca ybeon memorial-have memorial-have transpired there or by deeds ch I hav America's ized in marble and stone. Allst everj P past finds expression m f" to present Ameri-where Ameri-where National Park service s f "deavoi mg to p can history in a simple, slratfihtfot watd manner it mav be readily understood and correctly interpreted by every visitor. vis-itor. At most of the more important ! sites a program of educational serv- j ice to the I public has National Parks been estab- ,. lished with lentil competent ! In a Series historians in ! charge. 1 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 sup-i sup-i plemented or supplanted by sclf-ex-' planatory maps, literature, outdoor signs and trailside exhibits. Historic sites in the national park system fall roughly into six difler- ent groups or periods Colonial. 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 Frcderica 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 bastioncd, wis be-(tun be-(tun In the 171h century to defend de-fend the oldest settlement made by Europeans on land now Included In-cluded within the United States. 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 cf Sir Walter Raleigh's "lost colony." Here, each summer, is presented in pageantry the drama of the ill-fated first attempt at-tempt of the English to plant a colony col-ony on the North American continent. conti-nent. Still further north on Jamcjtmvn island in Virginia is the site of the first permanent English settlement. Fort Frederica national monument on St. Simon's Island. Georgia, rep- i : CASTILLO I)K SAN MAKCOS Oldest V. 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, nnd In Pennsylvania, near Farming, ton, a reconstructed pioneer fortification fortifi-cation mnrks the site of Fort Necessity Neces-sity and the scene of the opening battle of the French and Indian wn r. THE GREAT Revolutionary war battlefields of Saratoga In New York nnd Yorktown In Virginia arc Included In-cluded In the national pink system ns well ns the site of Washington's winter encampments nt Morristown N. J. Other Important Revolutionary battlefield sites In the national park system nrc: White Plains kcw York, Guilford courthouse nnd Moore's creek in North Carolina, Kings mountain nnd Cowpcns iii South Carolina. LISTED AMONG the more In-terosting In-terosting nnd significant sites which belong to the first 75 years of the republic are Fort Mcllenry 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 the log cabin in which Lincoln was born. NEARLY ALL of the great battlefields battle-fields of the War Eetween the States are now under jurisdiction cf 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 K i :'! ; i . " I -i GETTYSBURG Dedicated to Peace Manassas in r.crthcm V:rg:r.:a. Antic-,. im in Maryland. Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, Shilch in Tcr.r.cec. Vicksburg in Mississippi. Chicka-mauga Chicka-mauga and the Atlanta campaign m Georgia, Chatt.in.xiga in Tennessee, and Fredericksburg. Cr.ar.ceUcrs-vilie, Cr.ar.ceUcrs-vilie, Spottsylvar.ia. Richmond. Petersburg and Appeir.nt'.ex in Virginia. Vir-ginia. THE GREAT WESTWARD movement move-ment began long befcre the War Between Be-tween the States and ccntir.jcd for many decades after. In this phase ' ot history one finds in the national park system the JcfTcrsen rational expansion memorial at St. Louis. Mo., the Meriwether Lewis national i monument in Tennessee, which con- j tains the grave of the explorer who ! led the Lewis and Clark expedition through Hie northwest to the Paciiic 1 coast, and the Scof.s Bluff national J 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 Ari.-ona. j the site of the Whitman massacre I in Washington and the site of Cv.s- ter's last stand in Montana. In Hie West also, in the Black I 1Ill!s of South Dakota, is the ama;-ing ama;-ing memorial carved in the granite ; of Mount Rushmore to the memory of the four presidents. Washington JelTerson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. REPRESENTING MORE recent times are the Statue of Liberty na- i tional monument m New York har-bor. har-bor. the memorial at Kill Devil hill. North Carolina, marking thc ,-,t, I of the first airplane flight bv the Wright brothers, the Vanderbilt I mansion and the home of Franklin 1 D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park. N Y Krprrtontlnt the world of tomorrow to-morrow Is the proposed nall. l monument lo mark the Rile of the llrM .ton, H,mb rxpi. slon In New Mexico. The most recently " acquired n.v tional historic s ,ho Ai, , mansion at Quinoy. Mass. This nuinsion n part of which dates hack to l,.!l. ha, been the- homo of two president, nlut ,,. . writer, , , M,u Inuously through the whole Amor-lean Amor-lean scene from earliest day, of (he republic to Uie present A complete list of national hi,. rlc sites may bo obtain,-,, by wvi(. log the Director. National Pa,k vee. Depar.men. of tP ,.,, W ashlngtoiiv:.'!, D. C. |