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Thats facing all of the Museum Managers and people that are responsible for generating, producing, and collecting objects that would likely go into a museum sitting such as this is how much do we need to keep . How many things do we need to have to tell the american story and its the great conundrum of our protection. There are those who believe that maybe the time has come to start reducing the amounts of things we collect and be more judicious in how we collect them and what we collect. Is it inappropriate to use representative samples, say at an archaeological site, where things are left at the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Do we need to keep everything . And there are those in the professional field that think we need to keep everything and theres others who think sampling is the more judicious and longterm strategy. Because there is a point of diminishing return. It cost ....
Original ceremony was held on may 10, 1869. Included on this ties a list of the dignitaries from that company, including leland stanford, and the big four are all marked there. Another thing you can see on this site is a connection with the resources that would have the twoilable to companies building the railroad. We have mocked up everything to make it as authentic as possible. If you look on the west side, you will see the cut ties. The Central Pacific had they cut all of their ties and brought them down from the mountain. The Union Pacific from the east had to hand cut their ties wherever they could find wood. Not a lot available in the area so they would split them and you can see them mocked up, how they would cut them and bring them out when they could. The Transcontinental Railroad was happening at the ....
The centennial of the National Park service, American History tv is featuring natural and his stork sites across the country as recorded by cspans cities tour staff. We continue with a look at the history of the National Parks. The National Monument was authorized back in 1934 basically to preserve these prehistoric mounds. Thats all they thought was here when the park was first authorized. Back in the 1930s before the park was even established, while the locals were still working with the legislature trying to get this park authorized and established, the locals also realized that this might be an ideal location for a new deal works project, and so once again, working with the legislature, they managed to get this designated as a wpa work site, and working at th ....
Prehistory of the southeast. The mounds were built by a group that the archaeologists called mississippian people. Mississippian culture is a very widespread culture. It is actually hub is near st. Louis in a place called cahokia. That mound building religion or whatever it was spread throughout the eastern half of the United States. Ocmulgee is considered the hub of the mississippian culture here in the southeast, like a subcapital through the main capital there at cahokia, and the society, the mississippians existed on this site for over 300 years. Now, after that period of time, some reason, they left this site. We have no idea why, what happened, if it was, you know, a change in climate, a change in, you know, religious beliefs, or, you know, or what. Maybe it might have been warfare, who knows . But this site was abandoned, and then about 100 years later, the park service has a site just about a mile and a half south of here, ....
Georgia is home to three distinct populations of black bears, in the north Georgia mountains, in central Georgia along the Ocmulgee River, in and around the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast ....