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From the National Park Service in the Northeast

Mary A. Bomar
Regional Director

  

 

Southeast Regional Winners
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virgin Islands

 

1st Place Winner

Historic Augusta Canal and Industrial District
The Sibley Mill, reflected in a stretch of the Augusta Canal.

Augusta, Georgia
Photographed by Rebecca B. Rogers

This nine-mile canal system, constructed in 1845-46 and enlarged in 1874-1877, represents the South's efforts to industrialize before and after the Civil War. The Sibley Mill, 1880, is one of the textile mills along the canal that helped Augusta become one of the South's leading textile centers in the early 20th century.

Click here for more information: http://www.augustacanal.com/canal.html

 

2nd Place Winner

Fox Theatre, Atlanta
A peak inside the glorious Fox Theater to the proscenium arch, sky, and jewel curtain from the balcony.

Atlanta, Georgia
Photographed by Sara Foltz

The Fox Theater, which opened on Christmas Day in 1929, is a premier example of the American movie palace. "The Fabulous Fox" is one of the most ornate movie palaces remaining in the United States, and one of the largest movie theaters ever built (at more than 250,000 square feet.) The Fox was designed in a neo-Moorish style and the exterior features an onion dome, minarets, and horseshoe-arched opening.

For more information, visit the Fox Theater website.


3rd Place Winner

Saturn V Launch Vehicle
A view of the five J-2 rocket engines of the Saturn V booster's second stage.

Huntsville, Alabama
Photographed by Eric C. Nelson

The first Saturn V, identical to the Saturn V that launched men to the moon, was a test vehicle at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The three-stage rocket, the largest rocket ever built, is a featured exhibit at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.

For more information, visit : The NPS Travel Itinerary, Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms or

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center

 

Honorable Mention

Atalaya and Brookgreen Gardens
A view of the gardens featuring, "Spirit of American Youth," by sculptor Donald De Lue.

Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Photographed by Anne Malarich

Brookgreen Gardens was the first public garden in the United States to display sculpture in appropriate natural settings. American sculptor, Anne Hyatt Huntington, who specialized in study of animals and in heroic themes, designed and helped establish the gardens in 1931. Brookgreen Gardens is adjacent to Atalaya the winter home of Ms. Huntington. Brookgreen Gardens is open to the public as a sculpture garden and museum dedicated to the collection, conservation and exhibition of the plants, animals and cultural materials of the South Carolina lowcountry.

For more information visit the Brookgreen Gardens website.

 

 

Last Updated:
9/1/2005