“Oh, beautiful for patriot dream”
(Pictures and places in bold are places I have been to.)
Kentucky
1. Louisville and Bluegrass Country
2. Mammoth Cave National Park (a World Heritage Site)
3. Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (America the Beautiful quarter image)
4. Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
Tennessee
1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a World Heritage Site; America the Beautiful quarter image)
2. Nashville
3. Memphis
Honorable mention: Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Oak Ridge
Arkansas
1. Hot Springs National Park (America the Beautiful quarter image)
2. Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site and Testament: The Little Rock Nine Monument
Honorable mention: Ozark Hill Country
Louisiana
1. New Orleans (including New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park)
2. Bayous – such as the Barataria Preserve at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve and Kisatchie National Forest (America the Beautiful quarter image)
3. Poverty Point National Monument and State Historic Site (a World Heritage Site)
4. Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Mississippi
1. Natchez
3. Indian Mounds of Mississippi
4. Vicksburg National Military Park (USS Cairo – America the Beautiful quarter image)
Honorable mention: Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale/Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area
Alabama
1. Civil Rights Movement sites: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery and 16th Street Baptist Church and Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham (World Heritage Tentative List), Tuskegee (Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site and Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site – America the Beautiful quarter image), and more
2. Mobile
3. U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville