National Battlefield Parks

[BrighamBB]

Our national parks include battlefields from the past.  They are the subject of historians visits and family picnics.  Many people learn that in peace these landscapes offer beauty and rest.  Surrender Field, Yorktown Virginia

Wormley Pond, Yorktown Virginia

Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg Maryland

Lower Bridge, Antietam, Sharpsburg Maryland

Concord River, Minuteman National Park, Concord Massachusetts

[stevet1]

BrighamBB,

You wrote, "Many people learn that in peace these landscapes offer beauty and rest"

I agree with you. In an effort to preserve the historical nature of these places, the government has left them prisitine.

.Once you get away from the gift shops, they are some of the prettiest places in our country.

Steve Thomas

[BrighamBB]

Agreed, hope I do them justice in the photos!

[Tintype_18]

Loads of history in our country. I have traveled part of the Natchez Trace. Long and narrow, as only about 200 yards wide in places. Many places where pioneers stopped plus a number of Indian mounds. Would love to have the time to travel the full length from Nashville, TN to Natchez, MS. History: People would take flatboats down to Natchez, sell their goods, sell the boat for lumber and walk the Tract back home up North.

[stevet1]

BrighamBB,

I always wanted to canoe Antietam Creek.

Sadly, I never did.

Steve Thomas

[Tintype_18]

Tennessee and North Georgia are "home" to a number of battlefields. I missed Shiloh last October. If I go that way this October, I'm leaving home early and stopping for a while.