Historic Sites
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Appalachian Caverns And Campground Blountville, Tennessee
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For many years the cavern lay in silence broken only by the sound of the water, the... |
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Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park Nashville, Tennessee
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The center section of the park features a 2,000-seat amphitheater, composed of terraced... |
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Bledsoe's Fort Historic Park Castalian Springs, Tennessee
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Although the original building is no longer standing, the archaeological remains of... |
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Boiling Spring Academy Brentwood, Tennessee
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The Boiling Spring Academy is a restored 1830 one room school house located in Primm... |
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Chucalissa Archaeological Museum Memphis, Tennessee
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Located on the loess bluffs about 10 km south of downtown Memphis ,Tennessee, Chucalissa... |
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Cordell Hull State Park Byrdstown, Tennessee
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The Cordell Hull Birthplace and Museum is a historic site owned by the State of Tennessee... |
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Cotton Gin Park Franklin, Tennessee
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This one acre historic park is a monument to the assault on the Cotton Gin during the... |
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Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Cumberland Gap, Tennessee
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At Cumberland Gap, the first great gateway to the west, follow the buffalo, the Native... |
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David Crockett Birthplace State Park Limestone, Tennessee
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Davy Crockett's Birthplace has been preserved by the State of Tennessee Department of... |
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David Crockett State Park Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
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David Crockett State Park was dedicated in May of 1959, in honor of one of Tennessee's... |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park Gatlinburg, Tennessee
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Ridge upon ridge of forest straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee in... |
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World's Fair Park Knoxville, Tennessee
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This site of the 1982 World's Fair is landscaped with waterfalls and other natural scenes... |
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Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
