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Texas Field Trip Guide Texas Field Trip Guide 1 Texas Field Trip Guide Research and Design by John Notgrass Cover Image: George Bush Library in College Station Copyright © 2017 Notgrass Company. All rights reserved. You may print a copy of this ebook for your own personal use, but no part of this material may be redistributed in any format. If you wish to share the material with your friends, please give them this link to download their own copy of the ebook: notgrass.com/tx BestTrips.guide is our website that allows us to keep the links in this guide up to date. As you browse this PDF file, simply click on a location to go to the corresponding website. The listings and Internet links in this book are provided for your information and convenience. Our company does not endorse the organizations, events, or advertisements you may encounter through this guide. If you find a link that does not take you to the correct site, please let us know. Teaching the Heart, Soul, and Mind™ 1-800-211-8793 [email protected] notgrass.com Presidential Sites Zachary Taylor Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park Brownsville, TX BestTrips.guide/panp46 Zachary Taylor was a prominent U.S. general during the Mexican-American War. This site is the location of the first major battle of that war. Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site Denison, TX BestTrips.guide/ebsh90 Eisenhower was born in this home in 1890. The nearby visitors center includes a museum. Dwight D. Eisenhower Birthplace in Denison 1 John F. Kennedy The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Dallas, TX BestTrips.guide/sfdp63 This museum at the site of Kennedy’s assassination explores the political and cultural context of the early 1960s and the details surrounding Kennedy’s death. Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park Johnson City, TX BestTrips.guide/ljnh09 This historical site in Johnson City includes a visitors center and Johnson’s boyhood home along with the nearby LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, where the President was born, lived, died, and was buried. LBJ Presidential Library Austin, TX BestTrips.guide/lbjp69 This museum commemorates Johnson’s life and presidency. George H. W. Bush / George W. Bush George W. Bush Childhood Home Midland, TX BestTrips.guide/gwbc55 George and Barbara Bush lived in this home with their children from 1951 to 1955. George Bush Presidential Library and Museum College Station, TX BestTrips.guide/ghwb41 Learn about the lives of George and Barbara Bush and the history they participated in from World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall. George W. Bush Presidential Center Dallas, TX BestTrips.guide/gwbp13 This museum opened in 2013 on the campus of Southern Methodist University. 2 World War II and Military History 12th Armored Division Museum Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum Abilene, Texas Greenville, Texas BestTrips.guide/12atx BestTrips.guide/amatx Texas Military Forces Museum Iwo Jima Museum Austin, Texas Harlingen, Texas BestTrips.guide/tmftx BestTrips.guide/ijmtx Fort Bliss and Old Ironsides Museum Silent Wings Museum Fort Bliss, Texas Lubbock, Texas BestTrips.guide/fbmtx BestTrips.guide/swmtx 1st Cavalry Division Museum U.S. Army Medical Department Museum Fort Hood, Texas San Antonio, Texas BestTrips.guide/1cdtx BestTrips.guide/amdtx National Museum of the Pacific War National WASP World War II Museum Fredericksburg, Texas Sweetwater, Texas BestTrips.guide/nmptx BestTrips.guide/nwmtx No. 1 British Flying Training School Terrell, Texas BestTrips.guide/bfttx Museum of North Texas History Wichita Falls, Texas BestTrips.guide/mnttx Audie Murphy was born in Kingston, Texas. He was one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War II. Because of his wartime experiences in Europe, Murphy faced the physical and mental symptoms now called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He helped to raise public acknowledgement and awareness of this problem as veterans returned from the wars in Korean and Vietnam. 3 Air Show at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston Airplanes Cavanaugh Flight Museum Lone Star Flight Museum Addison, Texas Galveston, Texas BestTrips.guide/cfmtx BestTrips.guide/lsftx Texas Air & Space Museum Flight of the Phoenix Aviation Museum Amarillo, Texas Gilmer, Texas BestTrips.guide/tastx BestTrips.guide/fpmtx Hangar 25 Air Museum Vintage Flying Museum Big Spring, Texas Fort Worth, Texas BestTrips.guide/h25tx BestTrips.guide/vfmtx CAF Highland Lakes Museum CAF Houston Wing Museum Burnet, Texas Houston, Texas BestTrips.guide/chltx BestTrips.guide/cahtx Rio Grande Valley CAF Museum Texas Flying Legends Museum Brownsville, Texas Houston, Texas BestTrips.guide/rgvtx BestTrips.guide/tfltx Frontiers of Flight Museum CAF Airpower Museum Dallas, Texas Midland, Texas BestTrips.guide/ffmtx BestTrips.guide/caftx 4 Texas Air Museum (Stinson Field) Texas Air Museum (Caprock Chapter) San Antonio, Texas Slaton, Texas BestTrips.guide/tamtx BestTrips.guide/tactx Ships and Submarines USS Lexington American Undersea Warfare Center Corpus Christi, Texas Galveston, Texas BestTrips.guide/usltx BestTrips.guide/uwctx Battleship Texas State Historic Site LaPorte, Texas BestTrips.guide/btstx POW Camps Hundreds of thousands of enemy prisoners of war were brought to POW camps in nearly every state. POWs in the United States were often employed on farms and factories and were generally treated well. Another type of camp was the Alien Internment Camp. These sites held people who were citizens (but not soldiers) of Japan, Germany, or Italy, who had been living in the United States. Even though most were not charged with specific crimes, the government confined them during the war. Crystal City Alien Family Internment Camp Crystal City, Texas BestTrips.guide/ccatx Camp Hearne POW Camp Hearne, Texas BestTrips.guide/chptx Camp Huntsville Huntsville, Texas BestTrips.guide/chhtx In 1945 Italian POWs at Camp Hereford, Texas, Camp Hereford Italian POW Chapel built a small chapel honoring five of their fellow Hereford, Texas prisoners who had died of natural causes while at BestTrips.guide/ipctx the camp. 5 The Holocaust During World War II, some U.S. government officials and journalists were reluctant to acknowledge and publicize reports about Nazi atrocities against Jews and other groups. As Allied troops began to liberate Nazi concentration camps, the truth came out. These museums contain graphic depictions of extreme suffering and death and may be unsuitable for young children. Dallas Holocaust Museum Dallas, Texas BestTrips.guide/dhmtx El Paso Holocaust Museum El Paso, Texas BestTrips.guide/ephtx Holocaust Museum Houston The Destroyed Communities Memorial at the Houston, Texas Holocaust Museum in Houston remembers the BestTrips.guide/hmhtx centers of Jewish life and culture that were destroyed during the Nazi regime. Holocaust Memorial Museum San Antonio, Texas BestTrips.guide/hmmtx World History and Culture These locations allow you to learn about many other countries and cultures without leaving your state! Find Native American sites, sites related to Spanish influence in Texas, ethnic museums, art museums featuring ancient or international art, and museums focused on Bible times and places. Caddo Mounds State Historic Site Blanton Museum of Art Alto, Texas Austin, Texas BestTrips.guide/caddo BestTrips.guide/blanton Learn about Hasinai culture that flourished Includes European and Latin American art. here from around the 800s to the 1200s. Hutchinson County Historical Museum Amarillo Museum of Art Borger, Texas Amarillo, Texas BestTrips.guide/hutchinsonco BestTrips.guide/amarilloart Explores the history of the area from ancient Features a collection of Asian art from the to modern times. Middle East to Japan. 6 African American Museum of Dallas Meadows Museum Dallas, Texas Dallas, Texas BestTrips.guide/aamd BestTrips.guide/meadows Surveys African American history and art. Focus on Spanish art from the Renaissance to modern times. Crow Collection of Asian Art Dallas, Texas International Museum of Cultures BestTrips.guide/crowasian Duncanville, Texas Includes Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Korean, BestTrips.guide/imc and Southeast Asian art. Features exhibits about contemporary indigenous cultures around the world. Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, Texas El Paso Museum of Archaeology BestTrips.guide/dallasart El Paso, Texas Home to a wide variety of art from around BestTrips.guide/elpasoarch the world and throughout history. Explores the ancient and modern history and culture of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Below: Statue made of wood, shell, stone, and silver from the Wari culture of Peru (c. 800 AD). At right: Terracotta head from the Ife culture of Nigeria (c. 1200 AD). From the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. 7 Presidio La Bahia in Goliad El Paso Spanish Missions Presidio La Bahia El Paso, Texas Goliad, Texas BestTrips.guide/elpasomissions BestTrips.guide/labahia Information on the mingling of Spanish and Remains of a Spanish settlement founded in Native American cultures. 1749. Kimbell Art Museum Dunham Bible Museum Fort Worth, Texas Houston, Texas BestTrips.guide/kimbell BestTrips.guide/dunham Features a variety of world art from ancient Home to ancient and medieval manuscripts to modern times. of the Bible and printed Bibles from around the world. Tandy Archaeological Museum Fort Worth, Texas Lanier Theological Library BestTrips.guide/tandy Houston, Texas Includes artifacts from times and cultures BestTrips.guide/lanier related to Bible history in the Middle East. Houses ancient artifacts and historical books and
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