PARKS ABOUND IN SOUTH : VISITORS TO GAMES HAVE OTHER CHOICES.Byline: Bill Schulz Bill Schulz is a regular panelist, writer, and producer on Fox News Channel's late night show, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld since its debut on February 5, 2007. Schulz is also a freelance writer and a former senior editor of Stuff Magazine. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a place to stop and relax while driving to or from the Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. ? The National Park Service offers 62 park sites in the Southeast, most within a day's drive of Atlanta. ``Some of America's premier national parks and historic sites are spread over nine Southeastern states and the Caribbean,'' said Bob Baker, regional director for the park service. They offer everything from mountain vistas to blind cave critters, from warm beaches to hot inner-city asphalt. Here are quick looks at some of the most popular: Mountain Parks: Great Smoky Mountains Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Appalachian system, on the N.C.–Tenn. border; highest range E of the Mississippi and one of the oldest uplands on earth. The mountains are named for the smokelike haze that envelops them. on the Tennessee-North Carolina border is the highest mountain range in the East. It offers beautiful mountain scenery, waterfalls, fishing and miles of trails. Cumberland Gap on the border of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia tells the story of Daniel Boone and the ``Wilderness Road'' that became an early route for migration west out of Virginia. Underground: Mammoth Cave in Kentucky includes the world's longest mapped cave system. It offers a variety of underground tours. Under Water: Biscayne near Miami and Dry Tortugas, west of the Florida Keys, are good places for divers and snorkelers to explore coral reefs and marine life. Seashores: Cumberland Island in Georgia offers a great day-trip getaway on a beautiful beach. Access is by boat only. Reservations are needed for the park ferry or for the island's campsites. Five of the nation's 10 national seashores are in the Southeast. The others are Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout on North Carolina's Outer Banks, Canaveral on Florida's east coast and Gulf Islands on the Florida panhandle and off the Mississippi coast. Rivers: The Chattahoochee River at Atlanta's city limit offers canoe and raft trips down a gentle southern stream. For whitewater action, try the Big South Fork in Tennessee and Kentucky, Obed Wild and Scenic River Obed Wild and Scenic River: see National Parks and Monuments (table). nearby and Little River Canyon in Northeast Alabama. Wetlands: The world-famous Everglades and adjacent Big Cypress in Southern Florida protect a wide variety of species ranging from tropical birds to alligators and the Florida panther. At Congaree Swamp near Columbia, S.C., visitors can see record-book trees and the last remnants of bottomland forests that once were common in the South. Indian Culture: Russell Cave in Northern Alabama, Ocmulgee in Middle Georgia and Timucuan in Northeast Florida offer museums, audio-visual presentations and demonstrations of American Indian customs and folkways folkways, term coined by William Graham Sumner in his treatise Folkways (1906) to denote those group habits that are common to a society or culture and are usually called customs. . First Europeans: Castillo de San Marcos The Castillo de San Marcos is a Spanish built fort located in the city of St. Augustine, Florida, United States. It was known as Fort Marion from 1821 until 1942, and Fort St. Mark from 1763 until 1784 while under British control. and Fort Matanzas in St. Augustine and DeSoto at Bradenton, all in Florida, tell the story of Spanish settlers in Florida. Fort Raleigh at Manteo, N.C., is believed to be the place where Sir Walter Raleigh's ``Lost Colony'' disappeared. American Revolution: Guilford Courthouse and Moores Creek in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. and Cowpens, Kings Mountain and Ninety Six in South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. all mark sites of battles between the king's troops and colonials. Civil War: Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., preserves where it all started. Chickamauga and Chattanooga, at the Georgia-Tennessee line, is the nation's oldest and largest military park. It marks both the battle that blunted the Union's first drive into Georgia and the later battle that started Gen. William T. Sherman's drive on Atlanta. Kennesaw Mountain near Atlanta is a well-preserved battlefield on Sherman's route of attack. Fort Pulaski on the Georgia coast is where Robert E. Lee once worked as a young engineer. Western battlefields include Shiloh and Vicksburg in Mississippi and Fort Donalson and Stones River in Kentucky. Andersonville, the notorious prisoner-of-war camp in Southwest Georgia, now is a memorial to all American prisoners of war prisoners of war, in international law, persons captured by a belligerent while fighting in the military. International law includes rules on the treatment of prisoners of war but extends protection only to combatants. . The Old South: Natchez, at Natchez, Miss., is a sample of the South's antebellum cotton belt, Cane River represents the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase Louisiana Purchase, 1803, American acquisition from France of the formerly Spanish region of Louisiana. Reasons for the Purchase The revelation in 1801 of the secret agreement of 1800, whereby Spain retroceded Louisiana to France, aroused - an area that gave birth to the Creole culture, and New Orleans jazz New Orleans Jazz can refer to:
Historic People: Martin Luther King Jr. is commemorated only a short walk from downtown Atlanta's Olympic venues. Abraham Lincoln's birthplace is preserved near Hodgenville, Ky.; the homes of former presidents Andrew Johnson, in Greeneville, Tenn., and Jimmy Carter, in Plains, Ga., also are preserved. The Carl Sandburg Home is at Flat Rock, N.C. Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver are honored at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, and the Wright Brothers and the birth of flight are commemorated at Kill Devil Hills, N.C. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Civil War cannons remain on the battlefields at Cumb erland Gap National Historical Park on the Kentucky-Virginia-Tennessee border. Associated Press |
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