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 | Historic Fort Snelling Website : Historic Fort Snelling Website |
| Gettysburg National Military Park Website : Gettysburg National Military Park Website |
| Virginia City, Nevada Website : Virginia City, NV Website |
| Valley Forge National Historic Park Website : Valley Forge National Historic Park Website |
 | Astoria Column Website : Friends of the Astoria Column Website Description : “The Astoria Column was erected in 1926 at an elevation of 600 feet atop Coxcomb Hill, the location of the first permanent American Settlement west of the Rockies. It has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1974, and was refurbished in 1995. This impressive Oregon Coast historical monument is the only one of its kind in the world!” (source: Website). This is an amazing monument to white explorers and pioneers with a stunning panoramic view. More info |
| Paul Bunyan Land Website : Paul Bunyan Land and This Old Farm Description: Paul Bunyan is a powerful European American legend. Dozens of different places in the Great Lakes region honor him. More info |
| The Hunley, Confederate Submarine Website : Friends of Hunley Website Description : Confederate Submarine. A remarkable story about European American ingenuity. |
| Historic Jamestowne Website : Historic Jamestowne Website Description : “Come, walk in the steps of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas as we explore America’s beginnings. Here is where the successful English colonization of North America began. Here is where the first English representative government met and where the first arrival of Africans to English North American was recorded in 1619. Jamestown, the Beginning of America” (source: Website). |
| Virginia Dare statue at the Elizabethan Gardens Website : Elizabeth Gardens Website Description : “This graceful statue is the artist’s version of an adult Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World” (source: Elizabeth Gardens Website). Virginia Dare statue at the Elizabethan Gardens, “a glorious living memorial to the men and women of the Roanoke Voyages (1584-1587) who tried to carve out a living in a strange new world.”:http://www.outerbanks.com/elizabethangardens/vadare.htm (Roanoke became known as the “Lost Colony” because when an English supply ship came back all the people had disappeared. |
| Mission of Nombre de Dios and Shrine of Nuestra Senora De La Leche Website : Mission Website Description : Site of first Roman Catholic mass in what is now the US, and place where Martín de Argüelles, first white child to be born here, was christened in 1566. Enormous cross is a monument marking the spot, there is also a restored 16th century chapel, walking tour of the grounds, burial sites of many pioneers. All of St. Augustine, the oldest white city in the US, is worth seeing: the Bridge of Lions, Gonzalez Alvarez House (the oldest surviving white dwelling), Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse, Spanish Military Hospital Museum, Castillo de San Marcos and, south of town, Fort Matanzas. (The last is very much worth seeing though less uplifting, as it was the site of the slaughter (Matanzas means “massacre”) of French Huguenot Protestants by the Spaniards. |
| Castillo de San Marcos Website : Castillo de San Marcos Website Description : St. Augustine’s fort and old city are full of culturally important history for many European derived Americans. St. Augustine is the oldest continuous European cities in America, therefore its historical record is persevered intact. |
| St. Photios National Shrine Website : Saint Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine Website Description : “The St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine, an institution of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, is dedicated to the first colony of Greek people who came to America in 1768” (source: Website). Another place that is wonderful to see in St Augustine is the St. Photios National Shrine, “dedicated to the first colony of Greek people who came to America in 1768.” The slaves. Their settlement, New Smyrna, is south of St Augustine, near Daytona. Datil peppers are a kind of hot pepper cultivated by the white slaves, and is unknown outside of the area. EAU gardeners are growing them for seed and, if they are successful, will send them to members with the annual seed packs, hopefully in 2010. (EAU sends organic seeds as part of its gardening/self sufficiency project). |
| The Alamo Website : Alamo Website Description : “Most come to see th eold mission where a small band of Texans held out for thirteen days against the Centralist army of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. Although the Alamo fell in the early morning hours of March 6, 1836, the death of the Alamo Defenders has come to symbolize courage and sacrifice for the cause of Liberty" (source: Website). |
| Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park Website : Sutter’s Fort Website Description : Place that established European American rule in California, the fort was the center of a European American conspiracy followed by an uprising against Mexico. |
| Plimoth Plantation Website : Plimoth Plantation Website Description : “The 1627 English Village is a re-creation of the small farming town built by English colonists in the midst of the Wampanoag homeland. Find yourself immersed in the year 1627, just seven years after the voyage of the Mayflower. In the village you will be surrounded by the modest timber-framed houses, fragrant raised-bed gardens, well-tended livestock and fascinating townspeople of Plymouth Colony, the first permanent English settlement in New England” (source: Website). This is one our first European American settlements. |
| Independence National Historical Park Website : Independence National Historical Park Website Description : “Here were written the two documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, on which the foundations of our country rest. Here, from 1790 to 1800, when Philadelphia was the nation’s capital, the principle of governance based on the rights of individual citizens was first tested” (source: Website). Inspiration for our continuing struggle for freedom by European Americans. |
| Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum Website : Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum Website Description : The Village is over 90 acres and contains, for example, Model T cars to drive in, Edison’s original light bulb and laboratory, the Wright Brothers’ bicycle shop, and much more. The Henry Ford Museum holds an immense collection of European American inventions. Created by Henry Ford to honor and preserve European American culture. |
| Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum Website : Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum Website Description : “The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is operated by the non-profit, educational Country Music Foundation® (CMF). The mission of the CMF is to identify and preserve the evolving history and traditions of country music and to educate its audiences” (source: Website). Country music is European American culture: our culture. |
| Valley Forge National Historic Park Website : Valley Forge National Historic Park Website Description : Washington and his troops stayed here. What they endured that winter was beyond comprehension and the bravery and fortitude these men displayed was beyond measure. It makes one wish that those characteristics were in all of us. The Website for the Park is succinct: “Valley Forge National Historical Park commemorates more than the sacrifices and perseverance of the Revolutionary War generation; it honors the ability of [European American] citizens and their leaders to pull together and overcome adversity during extraordinary times.” |
| Buffalo Bill Cody Gravesite Website : Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave Description : A great museum and tomb atop a mountain with a panoramic view of the Rockies as well as Denver below. Excellent for families to see. Buffalo Bill represents an archetype of the heroic white explorer. He was a friend of Bram Stoker, who was inspired to write Dracula because he saw Dracula (Vlad Tepes) as a similar archetype, fighting the Turks in the “Wild East.” |
| Confederate Park, Memphis Website: http://www.civilwaralbum.com/vicksburg/memphis2.htm Description: Confederate Park in Memphis, Tennessee is a sacred place for the ancestors of the Confederate South. |
| Stone Mountain Park Website: http://www.stonemountainpark.com/ Description : "Located on 3,200 acres of natural beauty, Stone Mountain Park features a wide variety of fun family stone mountain activities and things to do in the Atlanta, Georgia area" (source: Website). What is so odd about this place is that no where on the Website do they even mention who (Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis) is carved on Stone Mountain. The managers of the site are doing everything they can, it appears, to obscure the Confederate origins of this remarkable place. |
| Jefferson Davis Park, Memphis Website: http://www.memphistn.gov/framework.aspx?page=886 |
| Nathan Bedford Forest Park, Memphis Website: http://www.memphistn.gov/framework.aspx?page=886 Description: Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and wife are buried in this 8 acre park in downtown Memphis. |