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Big Bend National Park
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.
Windmill at the Sam Nail Ranch
History & Culture
Learn more about Big Bend's complex human history
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Cerro Castellan
The Castolon Historic District
Discover the complex history of this border community!
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Cooper's Store, 1940s  

Did You Know?
Local legend Hallie Stillwell once said,“Cooper’s Store was the clearing house for information; travelers always stopped to find out what had happened ahead of them.” The old store building retains this role today as the Persimmon Gap Visitor Center at the north entrance to Big Bend National Park.
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Last Updated: March 27, 2009 at 10:10 EST