Southern States
South includes the following States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
National Parks: Wright Brothers National Memorial -- Manteo, North Carolina -- In December 2003, the world celebrated the centennial of the December 17, 1903 first powered flight achieved by the Wright brothers on the sand flats of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, now the site of Wright Brothers National Memorial. The Wright brothers' success of the first powered flight is one of our country's greatest engineering and scientific achievements. It is the story that goes directly to the core of what we hold dear as Americans, the freedom to pursue a dream to reality and ultimately change the world.
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National Parks: Stones River National Battlefield -- Murfreesboro, Tennessee -- Stones River National Battlefield was established in 1927 as a national military park managed by the War Department. In 1933, the park was transferred to the National Park Service, and in 1960 it was redesignated as Stones River National Battlefield.
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National Parks: Shenandoah National Park -- Luray, Virginia -- Shenandoah National Park lies astride a beautiful section of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which form the eastern rampart of the Appalachian Mountains between Pennsylvania and Georgia.
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National Parks: Prince William Forest Park -- Triangle, Virginia -- Prince William Forest Park is one of the largest NPS natural areas in the National Capital Region and the third largest in the State of Virginia. The 15,000-acre park preserves an example of the forest cover that once blanketed the entire Piedmont and Costal Plain physiographic provinces.
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National Parks: Ninety Six National Historic Site -- Ninety Six, South Carolina -- The Ninety Six National Historic Site is an area of unique historical and archeological significance. The unusual name was given by early traders in the 1700's because they mistakenly believed it was the estimated number of miles to the Cherokee village of Keowee in the upper South Carolina foothills.
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National Parks: Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee -- The Old Natchez Trace was a series of closely parallel primitive paths carved out of the wilderness by game animals, American Indians, European explorers, and American settlers. Over time, the paths were gradually linked and used for transportation, communication, and trade. For more than two decades, the Old Trace was the most significant highway of the Old Southwest and one of the more important roads in the nation.
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National Parks: Manassas National Battlefield Park -- Manassas, Virginia -- Manassas National Battlefield Park was established in 1940 to preserve the scene of two major Civil War battles. A few miles north of the prized railroad junction of Manassas, Virginia, and along the meandering stream called Bull Run, this otherwise peaceful countryside bore witness to clashes between Northern and Southern armies in 1861 and 1862.
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National Parks: Mammoth Cave National Park -- Mammoth Cave, Kentucky -- As a national park, World Heritage Site, and International Biosphere Reserve, Mammoth Cave is recognized worldwide as a unique and exemplary karst resource. Beneath the surface is the longest cave known to man; to date, it extends at least 365 miles, with more discovered every year. Above the surface lie steep hills and valleys, winding rivers and woodlands re-grown from the farms and small communities that existed here before the park’s establishment in 1941.
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National Parks: Gulf Islands National Seashore -- Mississippi and Florida -- Americans own over 97,000 acres of prime waterfront real estate on the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi River. Gulf Islands National Seashore has no casinos, no condominiums, and no shopping malls, and it will remain that way forever. There are historic coastal forts, wild islands, sandy beaches, salt marshes, and wildlife. Your visit counts as support for this amazing national park area on the beautiful Mississippi and Florida Gulf Coastline.
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National Parks: Guilford Courthouse National Military Park -- Greensboro, North Carolina -- Visitors to Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, in busy northwest Greensboro, North Carolina, may be surprised to discover a battlefield of the American Revolution in the South. Here, on the oldest preserved Revolutionary War battlefield in the National Park System, park visitors will learn of a paradoxical battle that helped the fledgling United States win their independence.
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