South Central

“Oh, beautiful for patriot dream”

(Pictures and places in bold are places I have been to.)

Belle of Louisville
Belle of Louisville

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


Ryman Auditorium and the AT&T Building, Nashville
Ryman Auditorium and the AT&T Building, Nashville, Tennessee

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


Quapaw Baths and Spa, Hot Springs National Park
Quapaw Baths and Spa, Hot Springs National Park

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


French Quarter, New Orleans
Miltenberger Houses, French Quarter, New Orleans

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


Longwood, Natchez
Longwood, Natchez

Mississippi

1. Natchez

2. Natchez Trace Parkway

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


Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama
Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama

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