Acton State Historic Site [TX]

Description

Acton State Historic Site is Texas's smallest historic site with a total of .01 acres. The site is the burial ground of Elizabeth Crockett, second wife of Davy Crockett, who married him in Tennessee in 1815. She died Jan. 31, 1860. Because Crockett fought for Texas and died at the Alamo, his heirs were eligible for a land grant, but Mrs. Crockett did not claim her grant until 1853. By that time all choice land was claimed and she had to give a surveyor half of her land for locating a tract for her gravesite. The monument was erected at Acton Cemetery by Legislative appropriation in 1911.

The site is open to the public.

Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.

Fort Fred Steele State Historic Site [WY]

Description

Fort Fred Steele was established on June 20, 1868 and occupied until August 7, 1886 by soldiers who were sent by the U.S. Government to guard against attack from Indians. The construction of the Transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad across southern Wyoming 1867–1869, in turn, brought the cattlemen, sheepherders, loggers, tie hacks, miners, and merchants who changed the wasteland into Wyoming Territory. Colonel Richard I. Dodge, who selected this site on the west bank of the North Platte River, named the fort for Major General Frederick Steele, 20th U.S. Infantry, a Civil War hero.

The site is open to the public.

Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.

Big Mound Battlefield State Historic Site [ND]

Description

A headstone here marks the place where Dr. Josiah S. Weiser was shot on July 24, 1863. This death precipitated the Battle of Big Mound, a skirmish between General Henry H. Sibley's Minnesota Volunteers and a group of Sioux who were believed to have been involved in the Dakota Conflict of 1862.

The site is open to the public.

Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.

Elkhorn State Park [MT]

Description

During its heyday in the 1880s, the mining town of Elkhorn swelled to a population of 2,500. The boom ended in 1890 with the drop in silver prices and residents moved to other areas. They left behind two impressive structures, Fraternity Hall and Gillian Hall, which have been preserved as outstanding examples of frontier architecture.

The site is open to the public.

Website does not specify any interpretive services at the site.

Wharton State Forest and Batsto Village [NJ]

Description

This Pine Barrens village is composed of 33 historic buildings and structures including the Batsto Mansion, gristmill, sawmill, general store, workers' homes, and post office. Batsto Village was a former bog iron and glassmaking industrial center from 1766 to 1867 and currently reflects the agricultural and commercial enterprises that existed here during the late 19th century.

A second website, specifically for the Village, can be found here.

The site offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Fort Amanda [OH]

Description

Originally built in the fall of 1812 by Kentucky troops under the command of Lt. Col. Robert Pogue, the fort was enlarged to almost double the original size during the spring of 1813 by Ohio militia soldiers under the command of Capt. Daniel Hosbrook. A fifth blockhouse was added during the second phase of construction as well as several cabins and storage buildings.

Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.

Story Mound [OH]

Description

Story Mound, of interest primarily to archaeologists, consists of a large, rounded earthen mound located on slightly less than an acre of ground. This prehistoric burial mound stands 19.5 feet high, with a basal diameter of 95 feet. Erected by prehistoric Adena Indians (800 BC—AD 100), it was excavated in 1897 by Clarence Loveberry. It yielded the first documented example of a circular Adena timber building, a structural type now known as the norm in Adena ceremonial and domestic architecture.

The site is not open to the public.

Campbell’s Island State Memorial

Description

At Campbell's Island, located in the Mississippi River near present-day Rock Island, a day-long battle was fought in the War of 1812. On July 19, 1814, a pro-British band of Sauk Indians led by Black Hawk attacked a force of United States regulars and rangers under Lieutenant John Campbell. The Americans were defeated, with the loss of 16 American lives. Campbell's Island State Memorial consists of a North Carolina granite monument dedicated in 1908, in a mini-park overlooking the river.

Website offers no specifics about interpretative services offered at the site.

Rosebud Battlefield State Park [MT]

Description

This 3,000-acre Eastern Montana rolling prairie park preserves the site of the June 17, 1876, battle between the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians and General Crook’s soldiers supported by the Crow and Shoshone Indians. Remote, quiet, and undeveloped, the park includes prehistoric sites and the homestead ranch of the Kobold family.

The site is open to the public.

Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site beyond signage.