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The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was established in 1895 to commemorate the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga. Both Union and Confederate forces sustained some of their heaviest casualties in this battle, which was a victory for the Confederacy.
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Cemeteries are an important resource in heritage education for helping people to develop a stronger sense of both history and place. Heritage education, an outgrowth of the historic preservation movement of the 1960s, relies on such physical relics as gravestones, documents, photographs, and other artifacts to encourage a greater understanding of the past.
Students observe a model of the city of Savannah at Massie Heritage Center. Each day teachers and students visit the center to take advantage of its unique collection of teaching installations for heritage education.
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Housed in the historic Massie School Building in Savannah, the Massie Heritage Center is one of the nation's earliest heritage education programs.
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In 1856 noted architect John Norris was hired to build the school. Norris created Massie's central building on East Gordon Street at Calhoun Square. When it opened that same year, Massie was Savannah's first public school.
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After the closing of the Massie School in 1974, Saxon Pope Bargeron worked with the Savannah Board of Education in 1975 to take the school in a new direction. She obtained a quitclaim deed to the property, nominated the building to the National Register of Historic Places, and helped to establish the Friends of Massie Committee.
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Massie's heritage education program was designed to build citizenship through learning about local history, the city's architectural styles, and Savannah's city plan, which supports multiple uses and diverse economic and social groups living side by side.
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In 1976 Massie opened the Heritage Classroom, which provides students with an opportunity to experience a nineteenth-century school environment.
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