A comprehensive look at all of the National Register's activities from the effects of listing to our educational outreach programs--its the National Register from A to Z--en Español!

The National Register of Historic Places is pleased to help foster the general public's awareness, understanding, and appreciation for Hispanic culture during National Hispanic Heritage Month. As part of the celebration, this site highlights various publications, properties listed in the National Register, and National Parks that deal directly with the ingenuity, creativity, cultural, and political experiences of Hispanic Americans. Join the National Register of Historic Places in recognizing and exploring the achievements of a people that have contributed so much to American culture.

National Register Travel Itineraries

Diver inspecting Urca De Lima Photo courtesy of the the Florida Maritime Heritage Trail, Florida Division of Historical Resources in our online travel itinerary--Florida Shipwrecks: 300 Years of Maritime History Luis Maria Peralta Adobe Photograph by Judith Silva, courtesy of the City of Santa Clara in the Santa Clara County online travel itinerary

In Print and Online itineraries are self-guided tours to National Parks and other historic places. Each includes detailed maps, tourist information, location information, and color photographs. Five of the earliest itineraries highlighted Hispanic American historic places, which are now also available online.

Travel virtually to:

• South and West Texas
• Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
• American Southwest
• California Coast
• Along the Georgia-Florida Coast
• Florida Shipwrecks
• Santa Clara, California
  

Rancho Los Alamitos -Ranch of the Little Cottonwoods Photo courtesy of Beth Boland

Teaching with Historic Places
This program offers a series of lesson plans that use places listed in the National Register to examine subjects that are part of history and social studies curricula. Included among the many lessons now available on-line are nine that focus on Hispanic History:

• Californio to American: A Study in Cultural Change
  
• The Hispano Ranchos of Northern New Mexico: Continuity and Change
  
• Forts of Old San Juan: Guardians of the Caribbean (Lección en Español)
  
• Frederica: An 18th Century Planned Community
  
• Gran Quivira: A Blending of Cultures in a Pueblo Indian Village
  
• The Vieux Carré: A Creole Neighborhood in New Orleans
  
• Castolon: A Meeting Place of Two Cultures
  
• San Antonio Missions: Spanish Influence in Texas
  
• Ybor City: Cigar Capital of the World

Winding staircase in the Supreme Court Building Photo courtesy of Cortesia de la Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica de Puerto Rico   San Elizario Historic District, TX Learn about this historic district composed mostly of wood and adobe buildings. Supreme Court Building, San Juan, PR This Modern Movement style building symbolizes the evolution of four hundred years of the complex judicial and political development in Puerto Rico.

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail National Park Service photo

Featured

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
In 1776 Spanish Captain Juan Bautista de Anza led almost 300 people along the first overland route to connect New Spain with San Francisco. Explore maps of the route, historical sites associated with the expedition and an audio library of sounds along the 1200-mile trail using the Anza Trail guide. Access journals of the expedition members and learn about the Spanish exploration and colonization of Alta, California in an interactive study environment.

• Cabrillo National Monument
• Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (past feature)
• Chamizal National Memorial
• Coronado National Memorial
• De Soto National Memorial (past feature)
• Dry Tortugas National Park
• El Morro National Monument
• Fort Matanzas National Monument
• Golden Gate National Recreation Area: Presidio
• Gulf Islands National Seashore: Bateria de San Antonio
• Padre Island National Seashore
• Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site
• Pecos National Historical Park
• Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (past feature)
• Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve
• San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (past feature)
• San Juan National Historic Site (past feature)
• Santa Fe National Historic Trail
• Tumacácori National Historical Park (past feature)

Presidential Proclamation: Hispanic Heritage Month 2006

Cultural Resources Management (now CRM Journal)
"CRM" is the flagship publication of the NPS Cultural Resources Programs and contains articles on the full range of cultural resources management and preservation topics. The following issues deal directly with questions regarding Hispanic cultural resources.

• Hispanic History in the National Register of Historic Places
  
• Exploring Hispanic History and Culture--A Dynamic Field

Diversity in the National Park Service
A highlight of the National Park Service's on-going efforts to reflect the diversity of American culture.

Library of Congress: Built in America (HABS/HAER/HALS)
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies, including sites related to Hispanic history and culture. Searches on keywords like "Spanish," "missions," or "Spanish forts" will provide information on an array of associated sites. Most of the site records have publication-quality drawings, photographs and historical data.

Spanish Colonial Research Center
As a way of recognizing our Spanish colonial past in the United States and in commemoration of the Columbus Quincentennial in 1992, the National Park Service established the Spanish Colonial Research Center in partnership with the University of New Mexico. The center's primary purpose is serving research needs by providing a computerized data base from Spanish colonial documents. More than 85,000 pages of microfilmed Spanish colonial documents and approximately 4,500 maps, architectural plans, and sketches of North America have been accumulated.

HispanicHeritage.com
This Tuscon-based website contains a wide variety of information for English-speaking Hispanic-Americans.

National Register Information System
Since its inception in 1966, over 80,000 properties have been listed in the National Register. Together these files hold information on more than 1.4 million individual resources--buildings, sites, districts, structures, and objects--and therefore provide a link to the country's heritage at the national, State, and local levels. Search by name, location, agency, or historic contexts to locate National Register properties associated with Hispanic history.

Past Hispanic Heritage Month Features
For more information about other Hispanic properties listed in the National Register, please visit our past features from 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 and 2000.

San Elizario Historic District | Supreme Court Building | Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
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