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From the Grand Canyon to San Francisco Bay, all across the United
States, America's historical sites and lands attract millions of
recreational tourists, vacation travelers, and history buffs year after
year. They range from Civil War sites like Gettysburg to the
natural wonders of our land at Yellowstone National Park.
Inspired by the best historical sites across the U.S.A., the website
and other facets of America's Best History strives to provide one
location where the history traveler can jump onto the trail, with a
focus on the history of the best locations. We will focus
both on
the history of our land, as well as our people, from the strife to
found a nation, to the struggles and triumphs in between.
This
site will attempt to be an ever-changing landscape, with pages that we
hope will inspire you to remember where you've been on vacation and
where you attempt to go, all while learning more and more about the
inspiring sites and lands that make America great. |
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Each page
will contain a short
history of the historical site and its significance, whether National
Park, National Historical Site, an entire city, or
attraction.
There will be information about the current attractions and things to
see as well. Expect each page to contain links to the actual
locations, as well as other items, including statistics (we love
statistics).
There are
currently
two main sections to the site; the U.S.
History Timeline, a
timeline of American History which records by decade the five
most important events of each
year of the decade, plus the recent addition National
Park Timeline, and the second area, which discusses
individual
locations, whether a city, state, or historic attractions within each,
that are, in our opinion, among the best historic attractions in the
United States. |
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Fort Monroe Reuse Plan
September 2008 | | Fort Monroe, located in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, is currently under discussion on just what will happen to the site after the Army decommissions the area and hands it back to the state in three years. Virginia Governor Tim Kaine has assured that part of the plan now includes using the site, home to history from the days of Captain John Smith to the issue of slavery and the Civil War to its more recent military past, will be used as a historic site. Whether it will become part of the National Park Service and exactly how the 570 acre site will be partitioned has not yet been decided. |
The New Gettysburg
August 2008 | | The new pattern for visitor visitation at Gettysburg National Military Park is now four months old with the hub at the new Visitor Center on Baltimore Pike. The opening of the Cyclorama is still to come, on September 26, and the Wills House not yet completed, but visitation to Gettysburg, for the most part, now has taken shape. The visitor center has been a big success. Gettysburg visits are over 10% higher than in 2007. However, some problems do exist. Downtown shopowners along Steinwehr Avenue, near the former center, complain about lost revenue, partly due to the economy in general, but also the move of the visitor center. It is still to be seen whether the new downtown to visitor center trolley will be able to assist in mitigating that fact. There is so much to do at the new visitor center, there is some fear that it is drawing people from the field itself, this despite a concerted effort by park staff to push people toward the variety of free Ranger Walks, for fee Licensed Battlefield Guides or Bus Tours, or the self-guided driving tour. |
Washington's National Mall Planning for the Future
July 2008 | | Planning for the future of the National Mall and what it will look like is currently underway. The plan, which is focusing on the next fifty years, is currently debating whether additional monuments and memorials should be built (beyond those already on the table, such as the Martin Luther King Memorial), whether additional services, parking, or shuttle services beyond the Tourmobile, should be added. To take a look at some of the discussion, go to National Mall. |
Bentonville Preservation Moves Forward
June 2008 | | A fundraising campaign to save 173 more acres of the Bentonville, North Carolina battlefield has begun. More than 1,100 acres have already been preserved at the Civil War site known as the last stand in the Carolinas where the Confederate army took a final loss to General Sherman during three days in March of 1865, just one short month before the end of the war. The Civil War Preservation Trust is looking for donations to save this land, which would provide additional acreage to Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site. |
Oldest World's Fair Building in USA Reborn
May
2008 | | The
Art Museum building from the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition is
undergoing extensive renovation for its new use, home to the Please
Touch Museum starting this fall. Opening date October 18. This building has been
underutilized and in disrepair over the past thirty years and will now
be home to not only the Please Touch exhibits, expanded to three times
its current size, but exhibits on the Centennial exhibition itself,
including a huge model of the event. The 1876 Centennial is
perhaps the most important event in American History that is unknown to
most today. It brought to the world inventions such as the
phonograph, telephone, elevator, reaper, and proved to the world that
the USA was now equal or superior to the other nations of the world. |
America's
Heritage For Sale
May
2008 |
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National Parks Conservation Association is urging Federal officials to
use the dedicated funds of the Land and Water Conservation Funds to buy
the remaining private lands still within the borders of the 391 units
of the National Park System. The Land and Water funds have
been
withheld, over the last number of years, for general funds purposes,
instead of the purpose stated by Congress when the fund was passed in
1964 to conserve lands. Funded primarily from oil and gas
leases,
which bring in $900 million per year, only $44 million of that number
was used for conservation in 2008. There are now 1.8 million
acres of park inholding to be bought, with the goal of eliminating that
backlog by 2016. For more information and to read the report,
America's Heritage for Sale, go to http://www.npca.org. |
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