National Register of Historic Places

• Featured Historic Property:
Saint Joseph Church and Shrine

• Hispanic Heritage Properties featured in our Travel Itineraries

• Presidential Proclamation

• HABS/HAER/HALS Hispanic Heritage Month Feature

• Hispanic Heritage in the National Park System

• Library of Congress Hispanic Heritage Month Portal

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National Hispanic Heritage Month
September 15-October 15, 2007
Hispanic Americans: Making a Positive Impact on American Society
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 properties listed in the National Register, travel itineraries, education lesson plans 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.

 

Featured Historic Property


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Trabajo Rustico style staircase
Photograph by Gladys Saborio, courtesy of the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office

 

Saint Joseph Church and Shrine, MI
Learn what an Irish church in Cambridge, Michigan has to do with Hispanic Heritage!

This church was built to support a small but growing Catholic community of Irish families who had settled in the northwest township of Cambridge. The shrine, built in the 1930s as a representation of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, stands on a hillside behind the cemetery and church, its pathways ...

 

 

 

 

Travel Itineraries

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La Purisima Mission in the Early History of the California Coast Travel Itinerary, our itineraries feature many of the Spanish Missions
Photo courtesy of La Purisima Mission State Historic Park

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.

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Teaching With Historic Places

The Teaching with Historic Places 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:

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

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Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
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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.

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Presidential Proclamation: Hispanic Heritage Month 2007

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.

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 2006 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 and 2000.



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