• Sierra del Carmen

    Big Bend

    National Park Texas

Teaching with Historic Places

The vast resources of big bend include numerous opportunities to tell a complex human history. Use these resources with your students to explore Big Bend's complicated past.

 
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Teaching with Historic Places
The Teaching with Historic Places program uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects.

Castolon: A Meeting Place of Two Cultures [10 Mb PDF file]
Compare the Spanish and Anglo influences on settlements along the Texas-Mexico border region of the Rio Grande.

  • The Castolon Historic District The Castolon Historic District

    Discover the complex history of this border community! Read More

Did You Know?

Luna's Jacal, 1930s

There are eight National Register of Historic Places sites or districts in Big Bend National Park. They are Burro Mesa, Castolon Historic District, Hot Springs Historic District, the Mariscal Mining District, the Homer Wilson Ranch, Rancho Estelle, Daniel’s Ranch and Luna’s Jacal. More...