America’s national parks preserve more than the great outdoors.
In cities, the national park service also manages historical parks, monuments, recreation areas, with museums, forts, historic ships, battlefields hiking trails, islands, ancient petroglyphs, war memorials.
A thousand years ago, Chacoan people built multi-story buildings and engineered roads in the high desert of New Mexico. Chaco Culture National Historical Park preserves the legacy of this ancient culture. It is one of the most visited prehistoric ruins in the United States, and is also a World Heritage Site for its “universal value.”
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The United States is a nation of immigrants.
Children’s books open wide windows into worlds of difference, and create inspiring stories of hope, courage, new ideas, and social change in America.
At Laws Railroad Museum near Bishop California, kids can discover an open-air museum with 19th century locomotive and freight cars, old station depot, general store, blacksmith shop, family home, schoolhouse, miner’s shack, and period artifacts from a typical town in the Owens Valley more than 100 years ago.
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